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Digital gangrene in end-stage renal disease
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Digital gangrene in end-stage renal disease

Sajad Ahmad Salati, Saad Abdullah-Al-Subaie and Sari M Rabah
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan, Vol.21(11), pp.708-709
11/2011
PMID: 22078356

Abstract

Amputation Fingers - pathology Fingers - surgery Follow-Up Studies Gangrene - diagnosis Gangrene - etiology Gangrene - surgery Humans Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy Male Middle Aged Renal Dialysis
Ischemic complications presenting as digital gangrene occurring in a patient of end-stage renal disease undergoing haemodialysis is rarely reported in literature. We report one such case of dry gangrene of a single finger in a 53 years old male undergoing haemodialysis. The condition was likely a steal phenomenon secondary to the surgical angioaccess for dialysis.

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