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Early diagnosis strategy of calciphylaxis in dialysis patients

Renal Failure, 2023
Calciphylaxis, a rapidly progressive and potentially life-threatening vascular calcification syndrome that clinically presents with persistently painful, ulcerative, or necrotizing skin lesions in multiple parts of the body, is predominantly observed in ...
Yuqiu Liu, Xiaoliang Zhang
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A Fatal Case of Penile Calciphylaxis [PDF]

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure characterized by vascular calcium overload. It has a high mortality rate. Penile calciphylaxis is an extremely rare condition of penile necrosis due to calciphylaxis of the penile ...
Carlos D’Assumpcao MD, Rupam Sharma MD, Addie Bugas MD, Arash Heidari MD, Rick A. McPheeters DO, Shahab Hillyer MD   +5 more
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Penile Calciphylaxis [PDF]

Urology, 2020
The proposed image reports the case of penile calciphylaxis. Calciphylaxis is a rare obliterative small vessel vasculopathy associated with diabetes mellitus, end-stage renal disease. Penile involvement is even rarer with only 50 cases reported, and agreement on appropriate diagnosis and management is unclear.
Antoine Gaillet, Yosu Luque
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Revisiting the death of Louis XIV: a nephrological perspective [PDF]

BMC Nephrology
Background Louis XIV died in 1715 at the age of 76 years. His death was attributed by contemporaneous accounts to dry gangrene secondary to peripheral arterial disease. Several clinical features described in these accounts may also be interpreted through
Stanislas Bataille, Philippe Charlier
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Navigating the patient-provider relationship during severe illness with lessons from a qualitative perspective of calciphylaxis [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Calciphylaxis is a condition with unpredictable onset that predominantly affects people with kidney disease. This rare, incredibly painful condition results in necrotic skin lesions caused by calcified occlusions of the microvasculature and has an ...
Olivia G. Durant, Sagar U. Nigwekar, Carmel Salhi   +2 more
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Calcific uremic arteriolopathy with penile involvement post-kidney transplant [PDF]

Urology Case Reports
Calcific uremic arteriolopathy (calciphylaxis) is a rare, painful condition in ESRD patients causing skin lesions and tissue ischemia. While typically affecting proximal areas, distal sites, including the penis, can also be involved. We present a 55-year-
Sidharth Anand, Aiswarya Menon, Abinav Udaiyar, Sandeep Jaswal, Bilal Siddiqui, Aman Siddiqui, Adam Atoot   +6 more
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Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Calciphylaxis in Chinese Hemodialysis Patients

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundCalciphylaxis is a grievous life-threatening vascular disease that commonly affects dialysis population. This is the first epidemiological survey of calciphylaxis initiated in China.MethodsIn the cross-sectional survey, a stratified sampling ...
Yuqiu Liu, Canlin Yang, Xin Yang, Xiaotong Xie, Hong Liu, Liuping Zhang, Jianming Ye, Dongsheng Jiang, Xiaoliang Zhang, Bicheng Liu   +9 more
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Calciphylaxis [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2001
Abstract The phenomenon of calciphylaxis is rare, but potentially fatal. It has been recognised for a long time in patients with chronic renal failure with secondary hyperparathyroidism. Disturbed calcium and phosphate metabolism can result in painful necrosis of skin, subcutaneous tissue and acral gangrene.
R V, Mathur, J R, Shortland, A M, el-Nahas   +2 more
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Development of the BWAT-CUA Scale to Assess Wounds in Patients with Calciphylaxis

Diagnostics, 2021
Calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA; calciphylaxis) is a severe form of vascular calcification with no approved therapies. A standardized wound assessment tool is needed to evaluate changes in calciphylaxis wounds over time.
Lisa J. Gould, Thomas E. Serena, Smeeta Sinha   +2 more
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Calciphylaxis in a Patient on Home Hemodialysis

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020
Calciphylaxis is a rare and severe complication characterized by calcification of arterioles and capillaries in the dermis and subcutaneous adipose tissue that leads to ischemia, necrosis, and painful skin lesions in patients with end-stage renal disease
Sreedhar Adapa MD, Srikanth Naramala MD, Vijay Gayam MD, Narayana Murty Koduri MD, Subba Rao Daggubati MD, Pallav Patel MD, Venu Madhav Konala MD   +6 more
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