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Dialysis, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, allows the purification of body waste, the elimination of excess water (ultrafiltration) and the restoration of homeostasis. The treatment is nevertheless cumbersome and burdened with multiple constraints that have changed little over the last 70 years. The ecological balance of hemodialysis is also very heavy. Advances, both ecological and technological, have been announced for the next few years, so we will take a look at them., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.

Calciphylaxis is a rare but devastating condition characterized by a calcifying thrombosing microangiopathy resulting in painful necrotic skin lesions. Risk factors are multiple, the most important being obesity, disorders of phosphocalcic metabolism and acenocoumarol. Largely unknown by the medical community, its pathogenesis is still incompletely elucidated; its diagnosis by skin biopsy remains difficult and increasingly debated because potentially associated with an aggravation of lesions. Its treatment must be as premature as possible andmultimodal. However, the results are up to now unsatisfactory, as specific treatment of calciphylaxis does not yet exist., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.