Chavel Severine M, Taraszka Karen S, Schaffer Julie V, Lazova Rossitza, Schechner Jeffrey S
Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8059, USA.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004 May;50(5 Suppl):S125-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2003.11.050.
We describe a case of calciphylaxis in a 47-year-old man with alcohol-induced end-stage liver disease and acute renal failure secondary to hepatorenal syndrome. Possible contributing factors included transiently impaired renal function, protein C and S deficiencies, elevated calcium-phosphate product, hyperphosphatemia, low serum albumin, repeated albumin infusions, and elevated alkaline phosphatase level.
