Nephrocalcinosis

Classification according to ICD-10
E83.58	Other disorders of calcium metabolism
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Medullary nephrocalcinosis on sonography

The deposition of calcium salts in the kidney vessels and connective tissue of the kidneys is called nephrocalcinosis . Causes can be a disturbed calcium metabolism , "calcification" of a previously damaged kidney tissue or deposits in the context of amyloidosis or plasmacytoma . The medullary spongy kidney, a non-hereditary, congenital malformation of the kidneys, leads via hypercalciuria to nephrocalcinosis.

See also

• Renal tubular acidosis
• Kidney stones

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M.-A. Jaccottet: On the histology and pathogenesis of kidney calcification (nephrocalcinosis and dystrophic calcified nephrosis) . In: Virchow's archive . 332, No. 3, May 1959, pp. 245-263. doi : 10.1007 / BF00955935 .

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