Recurrent calcinosis in consecutively transplanted kidney grafts.
Repeated renal transplant calcinosis is a rare event. We report a young woman in whom repeated calcinosis was observed in two consecutive renal transplants. Persistent secondary hyperparathyoidism and hyperphosphatemia due to impaired renal function were assumed as the pathogenic factors for calcinosis. Sub-total parathyroidectomy performed shortly after the third transplantation and good function of the renal graft have prevented calcinosis in the third graft for more than five years.
Janko
Otmar
O
2nd Department of Medicine, General Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria.
Zazgornik
Jan
J
Biesenbach
Georg
G
D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006962:Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016105:Parathyroidectomy; D010710:Phosphates / Q000097:blood; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D010710:Phosphates