25 Vascular calcifications and Calciphylaxis

25 Vascular calcifications and Calciphylaxis, with Smeeta Sinha

Molecules and pathways come to mind, but solutions seem elusive. That's why we're bringing you an insightful episode from A Pinch of Salt on ...

Calciphylaxis: Risk Factors, Diagnosis, and Treatment - PMC

In this regard, calciphylaxis can be considered as a continuum of a systemic process leading to arterial calcification in many vascular beds. Histologically, ...

Calciphylaxis: A Review - PMC

Calciphylaxis is a condition involving vascular calcification and cutaneous necrosis ... HOT has been reported to be beneficial in the treatment of ...

What is the exam of calciphylaxis? - Stanford Medicine 25

Imaging (including plain film, CT, bone scans, and even mammography) can reveal vascular and soft tissue calcification consistent with the ...

Vascular Calcification and Calciphylaxis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Intimal calcium deposition is associated with atherosclerosis, the leading cause of coronary artery disease in patients with and without CKD. Medial calcium ...

Calciphylaxis and Kidney Disease: A Review

On histopathology, calciphylaxis is characterized by calcification of small vessels (<100μm) in the deep dermis and subcutaneous tissue, along with fibrin ...

Calciphylaxis: Background, Pathophysiology, Etiology

Calciphylaxis (also referred to as calcific uremic arteriolopathy) is a poorly understood and highly morbid syndrome of vascular calcification and skin ...

Calciphylaxis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Although nonspecific tissue calcification may also be seen, the defining feature of calciphylaxis is calcification of the vessels, which is detected with the ...

Vascular calcification in skin and subcutaneous tissue in patients ...

Vascular calcification (VC) is well described in large- and medium-sized vessels in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...

Calciphylaxis: Controversies in Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and ...

Dysfunction of the regulatory mechanisms that manage calcium, phosphate and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels results in vascular calcification. Dystrophic ...

Calciphylaxis and Kidney Disease: A Review

25 Aberrations in molecular mediators that normally inhibit microvascular calcification have been implicated in the pathogenesis of ...

Calciphylaxis and nonhealing wounds: The role of the vascular ...

Objective: Calciphylaxis, a disorder of calcium-phosphate metabolism that can result in arterial calcification, skin and solid organ calcium deposits, ...

Hexasodium fytate for the treatment of calciphylaxis - The Lancet

In the CALCIPHYX trial, we investigated hexasodium fytate, an inhibitor of vascular calcification, for the treatment of calcific uraemic ...

Calciphylaxis With Normal Renal and Parathyroid Function

Calciphylaxis, also known as calcific uremic arteriolopathy, is a metastatic calcification-induced microvascular occlusion syndrome of mural calcification, ...

Calciphylaxis in patients with chronic kidney disease - Nefrología

Calciphylaxis is a rare disease that mainly affects patients with CKD on dialysis and is due to the progressive and chronic calcification of small vessels ...

Calciphylaxis: Controversies in Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and ...

25. Block, G. Control of serum phosphorus: implications for coronary artery calcification and calcific uremic arteriolopathy (calciphylaxis). Curr Opin ...

Extraosseous calcification in kidney disease

Vascular calcification is predominantly diagnosed incidentally, while soft tissue calcification and calciphylaxis are diagnosed on the basis of ...

Diagnostic Tests for Vascular Calcification

Vascular calcification is a major, but heterogeneous, manifestation of the chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder, variably affecting different ...

Calcification and Cardiovascular Health | Hypertension - AHA Journals

Vascular calcification develops at 2 different sites within the vessel wall. Although intimal plaque calcification is a feature of genuine ...

Five cases of calciphylaxis and a review of the literature

The cardinal features are irregular cutaneous purpura and necrosis as well as histopathologic findings of calcification of cutaneous vessel walls. There is ...