Dermopatía fibrosante nefrogénica: Reporte de dos casos

• Marcela Concha R ^[1] ; Cristian Vera K ^[1] ; Aquiles Jara C ^[1] ; Fernando Atabales A ; Sergio González B ^[1]
  1. [1] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Revista Médica de Chile, ISSN-e 0034-9887, Vol. 135, Nº. 5, 2007, págs. 640-646
• Idioma: español
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  • Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: Report of two cases
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  • Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy is a recent designation to describe cutaneous findings in patients with renal disease who developed scleromyxedema-like skin lesions with thickening and hardening of the skin. These skin lesions appear mainly after hemodialysis or renal transplantation but their origin is still unknown. We report a 63 years old male on hemodialysis and 56 years old male on peritoneal dialysis, who developed a nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy that was confirmed by pathology and immunohistochemistry with monoclonal antibodies against CD34)