Abstract
A hemodialysis patient associated with metastatic gastric calcification is reported.
A 49-year-old man who had undergone hemodialysis for eighteen years complained of epigastralgia, and erosive gastritis was diagnosed by gastrofiberscopic examination. Furthermore, calcification was pointed out on the biopsy specimen of the gastric mucosa. Bone scintigram also showed uptake in the stomach. In order to investigate gastric motility, gastric emptying time was examined, but it was not delayed compared with other patients.
Metastatic visceral calcification is recognized as one of the complications of uremia, but no reports have mentioned the clinical impliance of metastatic gastric calcification. In this case, the endoscopic diagnosis was gastric erosion with some bleeding. Gastric motility was not disturbed in this study, but further follow-up study is considered necessary.
