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Salvatore De Luca

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A complex case of fatal calciphylaxis in a female patient with hyperparathyroidism secondary to end stage renal disease of graft and coexistence of h…

2012

Background: Calciphylaxis is a potentially fatal complication of persistent secondary hyperparathyroidism; its cause is still not clear. Unfortunately there is no close relation in severity of clinical picture, serological and pathological alteration. For this reason the prognosis is difficult to establish. Administration of sodium thiosulphate may reduce the precipitation of calcium crystals and improve the general clinical conditions before surgical parathyroidectomy, which seems the only therapeutic approach able to reduce the mortality risk in these patients. Methods and Results: A 60 year old female patient suffering from End Renal Stage Disease, on haemodialysis from 2001 due to the o…

ParathyroidectomyGraft Rejectionmedicine.medical_specialtymedicine.medical_treatmentCalciphylaxiSettore MED/08 - Anatomia PatologicaGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyEnd stage renal diseaseFatal OutcomeSecondary hyperparathyroidism; Calciphylaxis; Kidney transplant; ParathyroidectomymedicineHumansKidney transplantDialysisParathyroidectomySettore MED/14 - NefrologiaCalciphylaxisHyperparathyroidismbusiness.industryCalciphylaxisMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseKidney TransplantationSurgeryTransplantationSecondary hyperparathyroidismSettore MED/18 - Chirurgia GeneraleHemolytic-Uremic SyndromeKidney Failure ChronicSecondary hyperparathyroidismFemaleHyperparathyroidism SecondaryComplicationbusinessBiomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
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Platelet-rich gel for the adjuvant treatment of wound healing of transposed flap for arteriovenous fistula in systemic scleroderma

2017

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medicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industrymedicine.medical_treatmentTreatment outcome030232 urology & nephrologyArteriovenous fistulamedicine.diseaseSystemic sclerodermaSettore MED/22 - Chirurgia VascolareSclerodermaSurgery030207 dermatology & venereal diseases03 medical and health sciencesSettore MED/18 - Chirurgia Generale0302 clinical medicineNephrologymedicinePlateletSurgeryWound healingbusinessAdjuvantSurgery; Nephrology
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