Metastatic pulmonary calcification in a dialysis patient: Case report and a review

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Eggert, Christoph H ^a   Albright, Robert C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcification; ESRD; Pulmonary calcification; Visceral calcification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACETATE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CITALOPRAM; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HYDROXYAPATITE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METOPROLOL; PARICALCITOL; PHOSPHATE BINDING AGENT; PHOSPHORUS; SEVELAMER; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ALKALOSIS; AUTOPSY; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; OSTEOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPHOSPHONATES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33749363052     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2006.00114.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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