RAPID PROGRESSION OF OXALOSIS-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY DESPITE ADEQUATE HEMODIALYSIS

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 10  (1) , 48-51
Abstract
Crystals of CaC2O4 were found at autopsy in the heart of a patient who, over a period of 11 mo., appeared to receive adequate hemodialysis and yet died of rapidly progressive heart failure. Calcium oxalate crystals were not present in the kidneys which were removed at the time of commencing hemodialysis. No secondary cause of oxalosis was evident. X-ray fluorescence analysis of the heart tissue revealed, as well as large amounts of Ca, excess Sr and markedly reduced amounts of K and Rb.