Abstract

ROJAS ESTRADA, Julia Janet; CASTELO VILLALON, Xiomara; ALFONSO SAT, Famet  and  SEMANAT VAILLANT, Dagoberto. Uremic calcifying arteriopathy. Rev cubana med [online]. 2011, vol.50, n.2, pp. 209-215. ISSN 1561-302X.

The calcifying arteriolopathy is an uncommon complication of chronic renal disease and it is associated with a high rate of mortality. Authors present the clinical case of a man aged 59 presenting with terminal chronic renal failure under a three times/week conventional hemodialysis program from 2007. He was diagnosed with a severe uremic calcifying arteriolopathy after a clinical suspicion and biopsy of cutaneous lesions with a fatal outcome. It is recognized that it is necessary a high rate of clinical suspicion for its early diagnosis and not always it is associated with a severe secondary hyperparathyroidism where multiple factors are involved in its pathogenesis.

Keywords : Uremic calcifying arteriolopathy; chronic renal disease; cutaneous lesions.

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