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Partners Calciphylaxis Biobank

Key takeaways

This is a biobank collecting samples from people with calciphylaxis, a rare and serious problem where calcium builds up in the tiny blood vessels of the skin. It mostly hits people with kidney failure, and right now there is no treatment that works. The goal is to give researchers material to study what causes it. It is a sample collection, not a treatment study, so there are no results.

Who did this work

Run by Massachusetts General Hospital. Sagar U Nigwekar, MD, MMSc (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Sites: Massachusetts General Hospital

Source

Trial · ClinicalTrials.gov, CKD recruiting · 2026-09-14
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03032835