Congenital hypoparathyroidism presenting as recurrent seizures in an adult

Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism may manifest as serious neurologic symptoms such as seizures, movement disorders, or raised intracranial pressure. Several patients were observed to have these dangerous neurologic complications even without subtle signs of hypocalcemia like tetany, chvostek�...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Sourya, Shukla, Samarth, Singh, Dinesh, Deshpande, Rohit, Mahajan, S. N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22690060
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.95981
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author Acharya, Sourya
Shukla, Samarth
Singh, Dinesh
Deshpande, Rohit
Mahajan, S. N.
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description Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism may manifest as serious neurologic symptoms such as seizures, movement disorders, or raised intracranial pressure. Several patients were observed to have these dangerous neurologic complications even without subtle signs of hypocalcemia like tetany, chvostek's sign or carpopedal spasms. We present a case of recurrent hypocalcemic seizures due to congenital hypoparathyroidism.
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spelling pubmed-33617872012-06-11 Congenital hypoparathyroidism presenting as recurrent seizures in an adult Acharya, Sourya Shukla, Samarth Singh, Dinesh Deshpande, Rohit Mahajan, S. N. J Nat Sci Biol Med Case Report Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism may manifest as serious neurologic symptoms such as seizures, movement disorders, or raised intracranial pressure. Several patients were observed to have these dangerous neurologic complications even without subtle signs of hypocalcemia like tetany, chvostek's sign or carpopedal spasms. We present a case of recurrent hypocalcemic seizures due to congenital hypoparathyroidism. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3361787/ /pubmed/22690060 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.95981 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Natural Science, Biology and Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Congenital hypoparathyroidism presenting as recurrent seizures in an adult
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title_short Congenital hypoparathyroidism presenting as recurrent seizures in an adult
title_sort congenital hypoparathyroidism presenting as recurrent seizures in an adult
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361787/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-9668.95981
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