A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia

Hypocalcemia with stridor is a well-known condition in the pediatric age group but has rarely been reported in the elderly. We report an elderly patient who presented with dyspnea and laryngeal stridor attack caused by hypocalcemia. The patient had been suffering from stridor and dyspnea episodes fo...

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Autores principales: Büyükcam, Fatih, Sönmez, Feruza Turan, Şahinli, Hayriye
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21373324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12245-010-0228-2
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author Büyükcam, Fatih
Sönmez, Feruza Turan
Şahinli, Hayriye
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description Hypocalcemia with stridor is a well-known condition in the pediatric age group but has rarely been reported in the elderly. We report an elderly patient who presented with dyspnea and laryngeal stridor attack caused by hypocalcemia. The patient had been suffering from stridor and dyspnea episodes for 2 years, and the etiology had not been determined until the evaluation in our department. The cause of stridor was hypocalcemia secondary to thyroidectomy. Complete resolution of stridor was achieved by calcium replacement therapy.
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spelling pubmed-30478632011-03-03 A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia Büyükcam, Fatih Sönmez, Feruza Turan Şahinli, Hayriye Int J Emerg Med Case Report Hypocalcemia with stridor is a well-known condition in the pediatric age group but has rarely been reported in the elderly. We report an elderly patient who presented with dyspnea and laryngeal stridor attack caused by hypocalcemia. The patient had been suffering from stridor and dyspnea episodes for 2 years, and the etiology had not been determined until the evaluation in our department. The cause of stridor was hypocalcemia secondary to thyroidectomy. Complete resolution of stridor was achieved by calcium replacement therapy. Springer-Verlag 2010-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3047863/ /pubmed/21373324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12245-010-0228-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
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title_full A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
title_fullStr A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
title_full_unstemmed A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
title_short A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047863/
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