Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse

This case report discusses an uncommon presentation of vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia attributed to misuse of multiple nutritional supplements (˃20 active agents). A review of this case, supported by accumulated literature, lends room to further public health safety discussions. Th...

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Autores principales: Alkundi, Alamin, Momoh, Rabiu, Musa, Abdelmajid, Nwafor, Nkemjika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Case Reports: Reminder of important clinical lesson
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9263930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35793850
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-250553
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author Alkundi, Alamin
Momoh, Rabiu
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description This case report discusses an uncommon presentation of vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia attributed to misuse of multiple nutritional supplements (˃20 active agents). A review of this case, supported by accumulated literature, lends room to further public health safety discussions. The multisystemic clinical manifestations of vitamin D toxicity can be debilitating, hence the need to prevent its occurrence.
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spelling pubmed-92639302022-07-25 Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse Alkundi, Alamin Momoh, Rabiu Musa, Abdelmajid Nwafor, Nkemjika BMJ Case Rep Case Reports: Reminder of important clinical lesson This case report discusses an uncommon presentation of vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia attributed to misuse of multiple nutritional supplements (˃20 active agents). A review of this case, supported by accumulated literature, lends room to further public health safety discussions. The multisystemic clinical manifestations of vitamin D toxicity can be debilitating, hence the need to prevent its occurrence. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9263930/ /pubmed/35793850 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-250553 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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title Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
title_full Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
title_fullStr Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
title_full_unstemmed Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
title_short Vitamin D intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
title_sort vitamin d intoxication and severe hypercalcaemia complicating nutritional supplements misuse
topic Case Reports: Reminder of important clinical lesson
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9263930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35793850
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