Acute respiratory failure due to 'pulmonary calciphylaxis' in a maintenance haemodialysis patient

Nephron

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 75-79

  Matsuo, Takatoshi ^a   Tsukamoto, Yusuke ^a,c   Tamura, Masato ^a   Hanaoka, Masato ^a   Nagaoka, Takashi ^b   Kobayashi, Yutaka ^a   Higashihara, Masaaki ^a   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^a   Saegusa, Nobuo ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EUV Metrol Technol Res Department   (Japan)

^c Morishita Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calciphylaxis; Haemodialysis; Hypercalcaemia; Lung; Metastatic calcification; Parathyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PHOSPHORUS;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; OSTEITIS FIBROSA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CALCIPHYLAXIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE;

EID: 0035109265     PISSN: 00282766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000045887     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Extensive metastatic calcification of the lung in an azotemic patient
2. Acute progressive and extensive metastatic calcification in a nephrotic patient following chronic hemodialysis
3. Calciphylaxis in man. A syndrome of tissue necrosis and vascular calcification in 11 patients with chronic renal failure
4. Soft tissue calcification in chronic dialysis patients
5. Pulmonary calcification in dialysis patients
6. Metastatic pulmonary calcifications in severe secondary hyperparathyroidism: Evolution after renal transplantation
7. The metastatic lung calcification and pulmonary function in long-term dialysis patients
8. Calciphylaxis in a chronic hemodialysis patient with protein S deficiency
9. Systemic calciphylaxis
10. Fulminant calcinosis in two patients after kidney transplantation
11. Parathyroid hormone-related protein, an autocrine growth inhibitor of alveolar type cells