Gastric calciphylaxis in a patient with a functioning renal allograft

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-125

  Shapiro, C ^a   Coco, M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcific uremic arteriolopathy; Calciphylaxis; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALLOPURINOL; CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CREATININE; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NITROGEN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; RISEDRONIC ACID; TACROLIMUS; UREA; VITAMIN D; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; STOMACH CALCINOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 33847259725     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/CNP67119     Document Type: Article

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