A Fatal Case of Penile Calciphylaxis

Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure characterized by vascular calcium overload. It has a high mortality rate. Penile calciphylaxis is an extremely rare condition of penile necrosis due to calciphylaxis of the penile arterioles. Presented here is a severe case of...

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Autores principales: D’Assumpcao, Carlos, Sharma, Rupam, Bugas, Addie, Heidari, Arash, McPheeters, Rick A., Hillyer, Shahab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8891868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35209729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096221076275
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author D’Assumpcao, Carlos
Sharma, Rupam
Bugas, Addie
Heidari, Arash
McPheeters, Rick A.
Hillyer, Shahab
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description Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure characterized by vascular calcium overload. It has a high mortality rate. Penile calciphylaxis is an extremely rare condition of penile necrosis due to calciphylaxis of the penile arterioles. Presented here is a severe case of systemic calciphylaxis initially presented as penile necrosis treated with sodium thiosulfate and amputation.
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spelling pubmed-88918682022-03-04 A Fatal Case of Penile Calciphylaxis D’Assumpcao, Carlos Sharma, Rupam Bugas, Addie Heidari, Arash McPheeters, Rick A. Hillyer, Shahab J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Calciphylaxis is a rare and serious complication of chronic renal failure characterized by vascular calcium overload. It has a high mortality rate. Penile calciphylaxis is an extremely rare condition of penile necrosis due to calciphylaxis of the penile arterioles. Presented here is a severe case of systemic calciphylaxis initially presented as penile necrosis treated with sodium thiosulfate and amputation. SAGE Publications 2022-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8891868/ /pubmed/35209729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096221076275 Text en © 2022 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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