Calciphylaxis or calcific uremic arteriolopathy is a rare cutaneous-systemic disease
occurring in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. The classical clinical
picture is that of a necrotic and progressive skin ulcer of reticular pattern, mostly
in the lower legs and susceptible to local infection. It is a product of mural
calcification and occlusion of cutaneous and sub-cutaneous arteries and arterioles.
The authors report the case of a 73-year-old male patient in his late stage of renal
disease presenting severe necrotic cutaneous ulcers on lower legs followed by local
and systemic infection and death due to sepse after parathyroidectomy.
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