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A commonly overlooked motor neuron disease mimicker

Motor neuron disease (MND) is a progressive devastating neurodegenerative disease, which universally progresses towards death. Hence, every attempt should be made to find out if there are any treatable conditions, which can mimic MND. Herein, we describe a case of hypercalcaemia due to primary hyper...

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Autores principales: Ghosh, Manas, Bhattacharya, Ambarish, Ghosh, Kaushik, Chatterjee, Atri, Chakraborty, Sisir, Jatua, Sanat Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bioscientifica Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EDM-14-0085
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author Ghosh, Manas
Bhattacharya, Ambarish
Ghosh, Kaushik
Chatterjee, Atri
Chakraborty, Sisir
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description Motor neuron disease (MND) is a progressive devastating neurodegenerative disease, which universally progresses towards death. Hence, every attempt should be made to find out if there are any treatable conditions, which can mimic MND. Herein, we describe a case of hypercalcaemia due to primary hyperparathyroidism confused as MND and subsequently cured with parathyroid surgery. LEARNING POINTS: Any patient with neurological disorder should have a screening of all the common electrolytes including calcium as electrolyte imbalance can present with paralysis (e.g. hypokalaemia) to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (e.g. hypercalcaemia). No patient should be stamped as having MND without having a proper work-up of all its differentials as there might be a treatable condition masquerading as MND.
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spelling pubmed-42611992016-05-10 A commonly overlooked motor neuron disease mimicker Ghosh, Manas Bhattacharya, Ambarish Ghosh, Kaushik Chatterjee, Atri Chakraborty, Sisir Jatua, Sanat Kumar Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep Error in Diagnosis/Pitfalls and Caveats Motor neuron disease (MND) is a progressive devastating neurodegenerative disease, which universally progresses towards death. Hence, every attempt should be made to find out if there are any treatable conditions, which can mimic MND. Herein, we describe a case of hypercalcaemia due to primary hyperparathyroidism confused as MND and subsequently cured with parathyroid surgery. LEARNING POINTS: Any patient with neurological disorder should have a screening of all the common electrolytes including calcium as electrolyte imbalance can present with paralysis (e.g. hypokalaemia) to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (e.g. hypercalcaemia). No patient should be stamped as having MND without having a proper work-up of all its differentials as there might be a treatable condition masquerading as MND. Bioscientifica Ltd 2014-11-01 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4261199/ /pubmed/27168935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EDM-14-0085 Text en © 2014 The authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_GB) .
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Ghosh, Manas
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Ghosh, Kaushik
Chatterjee, Atri
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Jatua, Sanat Kumar
A commonly overlooked motor neuron disease mimicker
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title_full A commonly overlooked motor neuron disease mimicker
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title_short A commonly overlooked motor neuron disease mimicker
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topic Error in Diagnosis/Pitfalls and Caveats
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EDM-14-0085
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