Sodium thiosulphate: a new way of treatment for calciphylaxis?
Sodium thiosulphate has been used in medicine for almost 100 years. There are some very important areas of application such as cyanide intoxications or the treatment of cisplatin toxicity. Till this day, this compound is almost unknown to most physicians. This is astonishing, especially because there are some promising reports in the literature describing a possibly wider area of application in different domains of medicine such as urology, nephrology or dermatology. Perhaps one of the most exciting and recent domains of sodium thiosulphate use is the treatment of calciphylaxis, providing new options dealing with this severe and mostly lethal illness. The goal of this article is to review the new application possibility of this compound.
Meissner
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Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. meissner.markus@gmx.de
Kaufmann
R
R
Gille
J
J
D000975:Antioxidants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002115:Calciphylaxis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013885:Thiosulfates / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D000975:Antioxidants; D002614:Chelating Agents; D013885:Thiosulfates; C017717:sodium thiosulfate