Calciphylaxis as a multidisciplinary problém: important information (not only) for clinical osteologists and case reports

Abstract

Calciphylaxis is a serious clinical complications characterized by large and painful skin and subcutaneous tissue ulcerations and necrosis, associated with the risk of sepsis and mortality. Its pathogenesis is quite complicated.

Despite it is a rare entity, physicians of all specialities may meet this disease.

Keywords

• calcifying uremic arteriolopathy
• calciphylaxis
• hyperparathyroidism