African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report

Calciphylaxis is a lethal disorder seen in patients with end-stage renal disease and is characterized by painful necrotic skin lesions. The pathophysiology is still unknown. Elevated calcium, phosphorous and parathormone appear to play a role in causing small and medium sized vasculopathy. Diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Rahman, Sajitha MF, Israel, Nejla, Markova, Tsveti
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830094
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8701
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Israel, Nejla
Markova, Tsveti
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description Calciphylaxis is a lethal disorder seen in patients with end-stage renal disease and is characterized by painful necrotic skin lesions. The pathophysiology is still unknown. Elevated calcium, phosphorous and parathormone appear to play a role in causing small and medium sized vasculopathy. Diagnosis is delayed, prognosis is poor and mortality remains high. In this article we describe the case of calciphylaxis in a patient with chronic renal failure and multiple medical comorbidities, and discuss diagnostic management, prognosis and treatment options.
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spelling pubmed-27401822009-10-14 African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report Rahman, Sajitha MF Israel, Nejla Markova, Tsveti Cases J Case report Calciphylaxis is a lethal disorder seen in patients with end-stage renal disease and is characterized by painful necrotic skin lesions. The pathophysiology is still unknown. Elevated calcium, phosphorous and parathormone appear to play a role in causing small and medium sized vasculopathy. Diagnosis is delayed, prognosis is poor and mortality remains high. In this article we describe the case of calciphylaxis in a patient with chronic renal failure and multiple medical comorbidities, and discuss diagnostic management, prognosis and treatment options. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2740182/ /pubmed/19830094 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8701 Text en © 2009 Rahman et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
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title_full African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
title_fullStr African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
title_full_unstemmed African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
title_short African American female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
title_sort african american female with renal failure presenting with skin lesions: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830094
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