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Successful treatment of calciphylaxis with vitamin K in a patient on haemodialysis

Calciphylaxis has high mortality. Vitamin K deficiency is common in haemodialysis patients and may be a trigger for calciphylaxis due to its role in activating a tissue inhibitor of calcification, matrix Gla protein. We report a second case of a female haemodialysis patient who developed calciphylax...

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Autores principales: Wajih, Zainab, Singer, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfab209