Penile Calciphylaxis – A Rare, Yet Medically Treatable Disease

Calciphylaxis or calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) is an infrequent complication in patients with renal failure. Its manifestations range from ischemia to gangrene especially in areas of adiposity. Penile calciphylaxis is very rarely seen. Treatment can be medical or surgical. Sodium thiosulphate...

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Autores principales: Sampathkumar, Sakthi Selva Kumar, Veerappan, Ilangovan, Raman, Ramaswami Sethu, Chakravarthy, T., Siddharth, Vijay Aanand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10503586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37781553
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.ijn_157_21
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author Sampathkumar, Sakthi Selva Kumar
Veerappan, Ilangovan
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Siddharth, Vijay Aanand
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description Calciphylaxis or calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) is an infrequent complication in patients with renal failure. Its manifestations range from ischemia to gangrene especially in areas of adiposity. Penile calciphylaxis is very rarely seen. Treatment can be medical or surgical. Sodium thiosulphate has shown to be an efficient treatment. Here were present a case of 74-year-old male who presented with penile calciphylaxis and was treated successfully with oral sodium thiosulphate.
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spelling pubmed-105035862023-09-29 Penile Calciphylaxis – A Rare, Yet Medically Treatable Disease Sampathkumar, Sakthi Selva Kumar Veerappan, Ilangovan Raman, Ramaswami Sethu Chakravarthy, T. Siddharth, Vijay Aanand Indian J Nephrol Case Report Calciphylaxis or calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) is an infrequent complication in patients with renal failure. Its manifestations range from ischemia to gangrene especially in areas of adiposity. Penile calciphylaxis is very rarely seen. Treatment can be medical or surgical. Sodium thiosulphate has shown to be an efficient treatment. Here were present a case of 74-year-old male who presented with penile calciphylaxis and was treated successfully with oral sodium thiosulphate. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10503586/ /pubmed/37781553 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.ijn_157_21 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Journal of Nephrology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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