Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis

We present the report of an adolescent female who presented with acute gastroenteritis, weight loss, and hypercalcemia. Further evaluation revealed hyperthyroidism to be the cause of hypercalcemia. Treatment of hyperthyroidism successfully corrected the hypercalcemia in our index case.

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Autores principales: Chrgondi, Madhuradhar, Billa, Ramya Deepthi, Chacham, Swathi, Gurnurkar, Shilpa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430099
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16483
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author Chrgondi, Madhuradhar
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Gurnurkar, Shilpa
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spelling pubmed-83726732021-08-23 Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis Chrgondi, Madhuradhar Billa, Ramya Deepthi Chacham, Swathi Gurnurkar, Shilpa Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism We present the report of an adolescent female who presented with acute gastroenteritis, weight loss, and hypercalcemia. Further evaluation revealed hyperthyroidism to be the cause of hypercalcemia. Treatment of hyperthyroidism successfully corrected the hypercalcemia in our index case. Cureus 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8372673/ /pubmed/34430099 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16483 Text en Copyright © 2021, Chrgondi et al. https://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.
spellingShingle Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Chrgondi, Madhuradhar
Billa, Ramya Deepthi
Chacham, Swathi
Gurnurkar, Shilpa
Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title_full Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title_fullStr Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title_short Unusual Etiology of Hypercalcemia in an Adolescent With Acute Gastroenteritis
title_sort unusual etiology of hypercalcemia in an adolescent with acute gastroenteritis
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430099
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16483
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