HYPOTHESIS A variety of clinical and biochemical variables may be associated with hypocalcemia after surgery for parathyroid adenoma. DESIGN A prospective study of patients who underwent surgery for solitary parathyroid adenoma. SETTING A university hospital department of surgery. PATIENTS Eighty-six consecutive patients who underwent surgery for solitary parathyroid adenoma. INTERVENTI...

Among the symptoms of hypocalcemia, tetany, papilledema, and seizures may occur in patients who develop hypocalcemia acutely. We describe a rare case of hypocalcemia presenting as schizophreniform disorder. Among other presentations of hypocalcemia, one should also look for the relation between psychotic symptoms and calcium levels in a patient presenting with psychotic symptoms.

Objective: To evaluate risk factors for Denosumab-induced hypocalcemia in prostate cancer patients with bone metastases. Methods: In this single-arm, open-label, prospective multicenter study, 48 prostate cancer patients with bone metastases received Denosumab (120 mg on day 1) and androgen-deprivation therapy. Serum calcium, albumin, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), and phosphate levels; chronic ki...

Background: To the best of our knowledge, there are studies related to QT and QTc interval in patients with hypocalcemia, but no evaluating T wave peak end (Tp-e interval), Tp-e/QT Tp-e/QTc ratios used evaluate cardiac arrhythmia risk ventricular repolarization changes rates. Objectives: Therefore, we aimed investigate whether is a change Tp-e interval, hypocalcemia. Methods: Retrospectively, 2...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to determine the incidence and evaluate the risk factors for hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy and to investigate how many parathyroid glands should be preserved to prevent postoperative hypocalcemia. METHODS From March 2007 to February 2011, a retrospective review of 866 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and node dissection for thyroid cancer...

OBJECTIVE To study the rate of postoperative hypocalcemia following completion thyroidectomy (CT), in comparison with the hypocalcemia rate following total thyroidectomy (TT). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING A retrospective study, performed at the McGill University Thyroid Cancer Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 2007 to 2012. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records of adult patients undergoing ...

Postoperative hypoparathyroidism is one of the most frequent complications after thyroid surgery with the incidence being reported to vary from 1.6% to 50% [1-4]. The causes of the postoperative hypoparathyroidism include surgical trauma to the parathyroid glands, inexperience of the surgeon, hyperthyroidism, retrosternal goiter, extent of neck dissection, and thyroid carcinoma. Post-thyroidect...

Hypocalcemia is relatively uncommon paraneoplastic syndrome. Only one case of hypocalcemia has been reported in a patient with chondrosarcoma. We herein report a case of a 32-year-old woman with metastatic chondrosarcoma with tetany. Her imaging findings revealed multiple calcific metastatic lesions in the lungs, pancreas, left atrium, and pulmonary vein. A laboratory examination showed hypocal...

background: hyperbilirubinemia is the single most common abnormal physical finding in the first week of life and is commonly managed by phototherapy with its inherent complications.  a lesser known complication of the phototherapy is hypocalcemia.   objective: to study the prevalence of phototherapy-induced hypocalcemia and to compare it between premature and full-term babies.   methods: this s...

BACKGROUND Hypocalcemia is a marker of poor prognosis in acute pancreatitis (AP) but the prognostic significance of hypocalcemic tetany in patients with AP has not been studied. We aimed to determine the prognostic significance of hypocalcemic tetany in patients with AP. METHODS Consecutive patients of AP who presented within 7 days of symptoms were included. Serum calcium levels were measure...