{"pk":899,"title":"Point-of-care Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Calciphylaxis","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Case Presentation:\n A 63-year-old male with a past medical history of end stage renal disease presented to the emergency department with painful, lower-extremity necrotic ulcerations. Ultrasound and computed tomography imaging showed concerns for calcium deposits. Biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of calciphylaxis, a rare lethal disease.\nDiscussion:\n Emergency physicians should keep this disease on their differential due to the high mortality rate.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"point-of-care ultrasound"},{"word":"calciphylaxis"},{"word":"necrotic skin ulcer"}],"section":"Images in Emergency Medicine","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46s6s7nz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Natasha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tobarran","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wellspan York Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, York, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Collin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wellspan York Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, York, Pennsylvania","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-07-30T22:31:36-07:00","date_accepted":"2020-07-30T22:31:36-07:00","date_published":"2020-07-30T22:34:11-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/899/galley/647/download/"}]}