Cerebral, myocardial and cutaneous ischemic necrosis associated with calcific emboli from aortic and mitral valve calcification in a patient with end-stage renal disease

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 468-473

  Li, Y ^a   Muench, A ^a   McGregor, D H ^a   Wiegmann, T B ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcific emboli; Calcification of mitral and aortic valves; End stage renal disease; Parathyroidectomy; Secondary hyperparathyroidism

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SKIN NECROSIS; SPLEEN INFARCTION; AORTA VALVE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; EMBOLISM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; EMBOLISM; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NECROSIS; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0035985428     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/CNP57468     Document Type: Article

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