Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis

Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious disorder seen most in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis. It is associated with the calcium deposits in small and medium blood vessels of the skin and subcutaneous tissues resulting in painful skin lesions, plaques, ulcerations, gangrene, and seco...

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Autores principales: Meegada, Sreenath, Annakula, Madhavi, Challa, Tejo, Peddi, Prashanth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025437
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6518
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author Meegada, Sreenath
Annakula, Madhavi
Challa, Tejo
Peddi, Prashanth
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Challa, Tejo
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description Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious disorder seen most in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis. It is associated with the calcium deposits in small and medium blood vessels of the skin and subcutaneous tissues resulting in painful skin lesions, plaques, ulcerations, gangrene, and secondary infections. The aim of our present report is to create awareness and encourage providers to consider calciphylaxis in the differential diagnosis of cellulitis in the appropriate clinical setting.
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spelling pubmed-69887192020-02-05 Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis Meegada, Sreenath Annakula, Madhavi Challa, Tejo Peddi, Prashanth Cureus Dermatology Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious disorder seen most in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on dialysis. It is associated with the calcium deposits in small and medium blood vessels of the skin and subcutaneous tissues resulting in painful skin lesions, plaques, ulcerations, gangrene, and secondary infections. The aim of our present report is to create awareness and encourage providers to consider calciphylaxis in the differential diagnosis of cellulitis in the appropriate clinical setting. Cureus 2019-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6988719/ /pubmed/32025437 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6518 Text en Copyright © 2019, Meegada et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Meegada, Sreenath
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Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title_full Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title_fullStr Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title_full_unstemmed Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title_short Calciphylaxis: A Deceiving Cellulitis
title_sort calciphylaxis: a deceiving cellulitis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025437
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6518
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