Calciphylaxis: a rare but potentially fatal event of chronic kidney disease. Case report

  • Marques S
  • Kakuda A
  • Mendaçolli T
  • et al.
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Abstract

Calciphylaxis or calcific uremic arteriolopathy is a rare cutaneous-systemic disease occurring in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. The classical clinical picture is that of a necrotic and progressive skin ulcer of reticular pattern, mostly in the lower legs and susceptible to local infection. It is a product of mural calcification and occlusion of cutaneous and sub-cutaneous arteries and arterioles. The authors report the case of a 73-year-old male patient in his late stage of renal disease presenting severe necrotic cutaneous ulcers on lower legs followed by local and systemic infection and death due to sepse after parathyroidectomy.Calcifilaxia ou arteriolopatia urêmica calcificante é quadro cutâneo-sistêmico raro em paciente com doença renal crônica em fase de diálise. Caracteriza-se por úlcera cutânea, necrose de padrão retiforme, evolução progressiva, localizada principalmente nos membros inferiores e suscetibilidade à infecção secundária. Decorre de calcificação da parede arterial e oclusão de arteríolas e artérias cutâneas e subcutâneas. Os autores relatam caso de paciente do sexo masculino de 73 anos de idade com doença renal em estadio tardio e úlceras cutâneas nos membros inferiores com necrose, evolução grave, infecção local e sistêmica e, óbito por sepse após paratireoidectomia

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Marques, S. A., Kakuda, A. C., Mendaçolli, T. J., Abbade, L. P. F., & Marques, M. E. A. (2013). Calciphylaxis: a rare but potentially fatal event of chronic kidney disease. Case report. Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 88(6 suppl 1), 44–47. https://doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132280

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