ABSTRACT: Hypoparathyroidism refers to a group of disorders in which extracellular calcium levels cannot be maintained within the normal range due to relative or absolute deficiency of parathyroid hormone. Clinically, hypoparathyroidism manifests predominantly as neuromuscular dysfunction caused by hypocalcemia. Basal ganglia calcification in particular is associated with hypoparathyroidism. Tw...

HYPOTHESIS Combined measurement of intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and serum calcium (sCa) levels is useful for predicting postoperative hypocalcemia with minimal laboratory effort and low costs. DESIGN Prospective analysis of 170 consecutive patients. SETTING University hospital referral center. PATIENTS One hundred seventy patients underwent total thyroidectomy. Defining hypoparathyro...

Treatments for hyperphosphatemia in hypoparathyroidism were identified as a low-phosphorus diet, phosphate binders, diuretics, and parathyroid hormone replacement (PTH 1-34 and PTH 184). The treatments that have proven considerable promise for the hypoparathyroid patient were the parathyroid hormone replacement therapies. The author recommended PTH 1-84 as the mainstay of hormone replacement th...

Objective: To investigate the effects of serum calcium and phosphorus levels on static dynamic pupillometry measurements in patients with postoperative hypoparathyroidism. Material Methods: Pupillometry were undertaken by using an automatic to detect high photopic, low mesopic, scotopic pupil diameters amplitude, latency, duration velocity contraction dilatation. Duration hypoparathyroidism par...

Objective: To compare the effects of two parathyroid gland protection surgical procedures on postoperative parathyroid function and investigate the other factors on the risk of postoperative hypoparathyroidism. Methods: A total of 353 patients who underwent surgical treatment for thyroid carcinoma (TC) were studied. Two different surgical procedures to preserve parathyroid glands were used: A) ...

Hypocalcemia due to chronic hypoparathyroidism presents with nonspecific symptoms. However, if untreated, hypocalcemia may affect neurological, cognitive, muscular, and cardiac function. Computed tomography (CT) findings may confirm a diagnosis of chronic hypoparathyroidism. Although autoimmune acquired hypoparathyroidism is a rare disease, early diagnosis and treatment are critical for avoidin...

Fahrs syndrome is a rare anatomoclinical entity whose main etiology primary or postoperative hypoparathyroidism. It characterized by bilateral and symmetrical intracerebral calcifications, localized in the basal ganglia. Hypoparathyroidism, postoperative, most classic anomaly. Hyperparathyroidism exceptionally reported as cause of Fahr syndrome. We report case 30-year-old woman who presented wi...

ypoparathyroidism-retardation-dysmorphism (HRD) syndrome (OMIM 241410), also known as SanjadSakati syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hypoparathyroidism, growth failure, developmental delay, and characteristic facies. We describe the effective short-term use (tapered over 12 days) of recombinant parathyroid hormone (PTH) (teriparatide) in an unusual genetic condit...

Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2 DS) has a very wide phenotypic spectrum that includes dysmorphic features, cardiac anomalies, and hypocalcemia arising from hypoparathyroidism. We herein describe an adult case of 22q11.2 DS with associated hypoparathyroidism and anomalies of the aortic arch. Because the patient had been diagnosed with primary hypoparathyroidism at another hospital,...

INTRODUCTION Postsurgical hypoparathyroidism normally occurs a short time after thyroid surgery in form of two clinical syndromes of different etiology and prognosis. The first is transitory and might spontaneously recover within a few weeks or months. The second is permanent and needs a definitive treatment. Only few cases of hypoparathyroidism clinically evident after many years from surgery ...