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  • Title: Severe metastatic calcifications in a hemodialysis patient.
    Author: Labidi J, Ariba YB, Gabsia AB, Ajili F, Battikh R, Louzir B, Abdelhafidh NB, Othman SI.
    Journal: Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl; 2016; 27(5):1037-1042. PubMed ID: 27752018.
    Abstract:
    Tissue calcification is a common complication in patients on continuous hemodialysis (HD) for chronic renal failure; however, severe calcification is unusual. Three distinct clinical types of extraosseous calcifications are found in uremic patients: vascular calcification, periarticular (tumoral) calcification, and visceral calcification (heart, lung, and kidney). We report a case of a young chronic HD patient who presented with extensive metastatic calcifi cations both vascular, visceral specially localized in the lungs, and periarticular with progressively increasing multiple subcutaneous swellings. This evolution was secondary to noncompliance of the patient to the treatment of a malignant hyperparathyroidism with a marked elevation of phosphocalcium product.
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