Wound Care for Calciphylaxis

Advanced Wound Care Therapies for

Calciphylaxis

however there are adequate discussions of epidemiology, phage anatomy, and the relation of viruses to cancer, as well as other topics which will intrigue the more medically oriented reader. A particularly valuable aspect of the book is that facts are discussed in relation to the research by means of which they were originally discovered or tested. The research is treated both by topic and chron...

Calciphylaxis

Fig. 1. Dry gangrene of the fingers (A and B) and dusky red discoloration of the right great toe (C) are shown. Progression of the gangrene of the fingers (D and E) and development of gangrenous necrosis of the toes (F) are shown. Plain radiographs demonstrating marked vascular calcification of the hands and feet (G–J). Skin biopsy revealing calcification (K) and microthrombosis (L and M) of sm...

Calciphylaxis

Figure 1. Right leg with painful ulcer demonstrating thrombosed blood vessels, saponified fat, and ischemic skin necrosis. DESCRIPTION A 56-year-old man presented with a wound of the right leg for 6 weeks that progressed from a linear ulceration with surrounding erythema to an excruciatingly painful ulcer with fat saponification and visible thrombosed vessels. His medical history was significan...

Wound Care

260 WOC nurses highly value skin integrity, and much of our practice is dedicated to the prevention of skin breakdown and the treatment of persons with altered skin integrity. WOC nursing practice incorporates detailed knowledge of the characteristics of wound and skin care products; however, often it is persons with less expertise in skin care who select the products that many health care faci...