Em 5 doentes com longa evolução clínica de tetania e/ou convulsões e com hipocalcemia e hiperfosfatemia documentadas, detectaram-se valores baixos ou inapropriados de paratormona. Apenas 2 doentes referiam história de tiroidectomia sub-total e todos apresentavam calcificação dos núcleos da base, cataratas subcapsulares bilaterais e prolongamento do intervalo QTc do ECG. Após 1 mês de terapêutica oral com cálcio...
At the present time, there are markers which we can use to identify individuals with a high susceptibility of developing insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) years before the onset of the disease. Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease strongly associated with HLA antigens DR3 and DR4. In this manuscript, we discuss the usefulness of several markers, such as islet cell antibodies, in...
In 5 patients with a long clinical evolution of tetany and/or convulsions and with documented hypocalcaemia and hyperphosphatemia, low or inappropriate values of parathormone were detected. Only two of the patients had a history of subtotal thyroidectomy and all presented with basal ganglia calcification, bilateral subcapsular cataracts and prolonged QTc interval in the ECG. After one month of oral therapy with...
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