Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Joost Dejaeger

Publications

• Case Report
  Severe Calcification in the Abdominal Pocket of an Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) in a Patient on Long-Term Hemodialysis
  Author(s): Sven Bamps, Joost Dejaeger, Ben Sprangers and Tom TheysSven Bamps, Joost Dejaeger, Ben Sprangers and Tom Theys
  
  Introduction: Ectopic mineralization has been described in patients with end-stage renal failure managed with long-term hemodialysis. This study reports the first case of severe focal ectopic calcification in an implantable abdominal pulse generator pocket. The patient has a medical history of long-term hemodialysis and failed back surgery syndrome. The failed back surgery syndrome is treated with a spinal cord stimulator and an implantable pulse generator (IPG). Case report: Severe ectopic calcification of an implantable abdominal pulse generator pocket was observed in a 58-year-old female patient undergoing IPG relocation. The patient had a medical history of long-term hemodialysis for end-stage renal failure. She is also known with a spinal cord stimulator and an IPG for failed low back surgery syndrome. Microbiological study was negative.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000923

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