Tetany Exacerbating Heart Failure: A Case Report

Tetany is characterized by numbness and stiffness in the hands and feet caused by hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hyperventilatory alkalosis, primarily at peripheral neuromuscular junctions. Although hypocalcemia is common in critically ill patients, its diagnosis of hypocalcemia is complicated an...

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Autores principales: Tanabe, Junya, Fukunaga, Shohei, Endo, Akihiro, Ito, Takafumi, Tanabe, Kazuaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425555
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12467
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author Tanabe, Junya
Fukunaga, Shohei
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Tanabe, Kazuaki
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description Tetany is characterized by numbness and stiffness in the hands and feet caused by hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hyperventilatory alkalosis, primarily at peripheral neuromuscular junctions. Although hypocalcemia is common in critically ill patients, its diagnosis of hypocalcemia is complicated and sometimes overlooked. We encountered an 82-year-old woman with tetany that exacerbated heart failure. Pain and respiratory failure due to tetany are conditions that can lead to exacerbation of heart failure. Chronic renal failure is frequently associated with chronic heart failure, and regular follow-up of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium levels is necessary for such patients.
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spelling pubmed-77855052021-01-07 Tetany Exacerbating Heart Failure: A Case Report Tanabe, Junya Fukunaga, Shohei Endo, Akihiro Ito, Takafumi Tanabe, Kazuaki Cureus Cardiology Tetany is characterized by numbness and stiffness in the hands and feet caused by hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, and hyperventilatory alkalosis, primarily at peripheral neuromuscular junctions. Although hypocalcemia is common in critically ill patients, its diagnosis of hypocalcemia is complicated and sometimes overlooked. We encountered an 82-year-old woman with tetany that exacerbated heart failure. Pain and respiratory failure due to tetany are conditions that can lead to exacerbation of heart failure. Chronic renal failure is frequently associated with chronic heart failure, and regular follow-up of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium levels is necessary for such patients. Cureus 2021-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7785505/ /pubmed/33425555 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12467 Text en Copyright © 2021, Tanabe et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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