Severe metastatic calcifications in a hemodialysis patient
Tissue calcification is a common complication in patients on continuous hemodialysis (HD) for chronic renal failure; however, severe calcification is unusual. Three distinct clinical types of extraosseous calcifications are found in uremic patients: vascular calcification, periarticular (tumoral) ca...
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| Published in: | Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 1037 - 1042 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation
01-09-2016
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| Summary: | Tissue calcification is a common complication in patients on continuous hemodialysis
(HD) for chronic renal failure; however, severe calcification is unusual. Three distinct
clinical types of extraosseous calcifications are found in uremic patients: vascular calcification,
periarticular (tumoral) calcification, and visceral calcification (heart, lung, and kidney). We report a
case of a young chronic HD patient who presented with extensive metastatic calcifications both
vascular, visceral specially localized in the lungs, and periarticular with progressively increasing
multiple subcutaneous swellings. This evolution was secondary to noncompliance of the patient to
the treatment of a malignant hyperparathyroidism with a marked elevation of phosphocalcium
product. |
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| ISSN: | 1319-2442 2320-3838 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/1319-2442.190884 |