Abstract
Excess and progressing arterial calcification is a frequent finding in patients with chronic kidney disease and in diabetics. Vascular calcification present in patients on dialysis, usually continues to progress (although possibly with slower rate) in patients after kidney transplantation. These observations are limited mostly to aorta and coronary arteries; virtually no data exist on progression in vascular calcification within the vasculature of transplanted kidney. The case report presents the patient with diabetes and non-functioning renal transplant back on dialysis with extremely severe intra-abdominal artery calcification, sparing renal artery of transplanted kidney. Calcification did not develop within transplanted kidney despite 10 years of exposition to diabetic environment and a few years of chronic kidney disease after transplantation, including CKD-T stage 5 for at least one year after re-starting of dialysis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second report ever describing sparing of kidney graft from calcification despite disseminated calcification in other vascular beds. It is tempting to speculate that some “intrinsic” factors exist within the transplanted kidney that protects it from calcification despite exposure to procalcifying milieu of diabetes and uremia.
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