Metastatic Myocardial Calcification in Chronic Renal Failure Presenting as Atrioventricular Block

Abstract

THE development of hemodialysis for the treatment of chronic renal failure has given rise to a host of new problems in medical management. Atrioventricular block developed in the anephric patient described below who was undergoing hemodialysis and was found to have secondary hyperparathyroidism and metastatic calcification involving the myocardium and its conducting system.Case ReportA.M., a 27-year-old man, was admitted to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals on April 4, 1970. He had had 2 previous admissions in the preceding 20 months for chronic renal failure and had undergone bilateral nephrectomy and splenectomy preparatory to renal transplantation. He had been . . .