Table 1.

Risk factors for calciphylaxis.

Risk factors for calciphylaxis

■ Diabetes mellitus ■ Hypoalbuminemia ■ Medications like calcium-based binders and vitamin D analogs, nutritional vitamin D, warfarin use, and systemic glucocorticoids ■ Female sex ■ Recurrent skin trauma ■ Hyperphosphatemia ■ Obesity (body mass index [BMI] >30) ■ More years on dialysis (dialysis vintages) ■ Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases ■ Hypercoagulable states, such as protein C and S deficiency and antiphospholipid syndrome