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ArticleAnnals of vascular diseases2021

Calciphylaxis After Aortic Valve Replacement in a Patient with End-Stage Renal Disease.

Kazunobu Hirooka, Keisuke Anju, Yoshihiro Moriyama, Yuichi Araki, Ekapot Bhunchet, Ryoji Kinoshita, Yohei Yamamoto, Hidetoshi Uchiyama, Masahiro Oonuki, Hiroyuki Tanaka

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Article in Annals of vascular diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazunobu HirookaDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Keisuke AnjuDepartment of Dermatology, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Yoshihiro MoriyamaDepartment of Dermatology, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Yuichi ArakiDepartment of Emergency, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Ekapot BhunchetDepartment of Pathology, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Ryoji KinoshitaDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Yohei YamamotoDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Hidetoshi UchiyamaDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Masahiro OonukiDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Hiroyuki TanakaDepartment of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan.
Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we report a case of a patient on dialysis who presented necrotic lesions on the legs and penile ulceration 7 years after a mechanical aortic valve replacement. The diagnosis of calciphylaxis was not confirmed even after skin biopsy, and multidisciplinary management was not initiated until the patient was admitted with septic shock. Cardiovascular surgeons should be aware of warfarin-induced calciphylaxis, whose pathophysiology differs from that of atherosclerosis. Considering poor long-term survival of dialysis patients, mechanical valves should be reserved only for those patients whose estimated survival is longer than the time taken for a biological valve to deteriorate.

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aortic valve replacementcalciphylaxisend-stage renal disease

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PMID35082944
PMCPMC8752931
OpenAlexW3205206915

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