Vascular calcification in a young patient with end-stage renal disease.

Although extraskeletal calcifications had been recognised as a complication of uraemia, the emphasis in the past was on skeletal changes and bone disease. With greater awareness of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in end-stage renal disease (ESRD), vascular calcification becomes a focus of studies even in the paediatric population. We report on a dialysis patient with diffuse vascular calcification and review the literature on its pathogenesis.