Carpopedal spasm in a 4 year old boy with persisted vomiting and dyselectrolytemia in Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa

Carpopedal spasm have various causes ranging from dsyselecrolytemia, syndromic, metabolic or endocrine causes. Any of these could cause a decrease in ionized calcium and tetany. Excessive vomiting leading to alkalosis, hypokaleamia and decreased ionised calcium should be kept in mind for early etiol...

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Autores principales: Oke, Oluwasola Julius, Amoo, Kazeem Olarenwaju, Akinwumi, Ifeoluwa Alex, Fawale, Omomayowa Omotola, Adeniyi, Adewuyi Temidayo, Adeniji, Emmanuel Oluwatosin, Adetola, Hammed Hassan, Ologun, Busayo Gideon, Folarin, Oluwatobi Faith, Kuti, Dedmilade Kehinde
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6658147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31384358
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.43.17770
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Sumario:Carpopedal spasm have various causes ranging from dsyselecrolytemia, syndromic, metabolic or endocrine causes. Any of these could cause a decrease in ionized calcium and tetany. Excessive vomiting leading to alkalosis, hypokaleamia and decreased ionised calcium should be kept in mind for early etiological diagnosis of carpopedal spasm. We report a case of 4-year-old boy presenting with a history of recurrent painful spasm and flexion of bilateral hands following excessive vomiting and electrolyte derangement.

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