Severe and Symptomatic Calcium Disorders Caused by Secondary Bone Disease in a Patient with a Thyroid Storm


Autoria(s): Woittiez, Lycke Renate; Hendriks, Bart Jacobus Cornelis; Wesselink, Elsbeth Johanna; Te Paske, Marcel; Kanen, Boris Lambertus Johannes
Data(s)

2014

Resumo

A patient with Graves’ disease was admitted with a thyroid storm. She had severe hypercalcaemia caused by thyrotoxicosis. Treatment was complicated by vomiting and diarrhoea. With intravenous ondansetron, hydration and bisphosphonates, GI symptoms improved and oral thyreostatics could be started. This, combined with bisphosphonate administration, resulted in a mild hungry bone syndrome.

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http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/14939/1/117-965-3-PB.pdf

Woittiez, Lycke Renate and Hendriks, Bart Jacobus Cornelis and Wesselink, Elsbeth Johanna and Te Paske, Marcel and Kanen, Boris Lambertus Johannes (2014) Severe and Symptomatic Calcium Disorders Caused by Secondary Bone Disease in a Patient with a Thyroid Storm. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 1 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2284-2594

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en

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SMC media

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http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/14939/

http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/117

10.12890/2014_000117

Palavras-Chave #616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale)
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