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Hypocalcemia Induced Bronchospasm

Bronchospasm is acute narrowing of the airways of lungs, which gives rise to wheezing and shortness of breath. Commonly seen in obstructive lung disease, but a rare finding in patients with hypocalcemia. This is a case that outlines a rare presentation of hypocalcemia induced bronchospasm in a patie...

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Autores principales: Kumari, Aneeta, Nangrani, Kunal, Dolkar, Tsering, Arora, Amita, Schmidt, Marie
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903573
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26339
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author Kumari, Aneeta
Nangrani, Kunal
Dolkar, Tsering
Arora, Amita
Schmidt, Marie
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description Bronchospasm is acute narrowing of the airways of lungs, which gives rise to wheezing and shortness of breath. Commonly seen in obstructive lung disease, but a rare finding in patients with hypocalcemia. This is a case that outlines a rare presentation of hypocalcemia induced bronchospasm in a patient with no known history of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this report, we present a case of a 57 years old male with no history of asthma or COPD who presented with intractable bronchospasm. Initial work-up for common entities was negative. Patient was found to be profoundly hypocalcemic and treatment provided resolution of symptoms. Early recognition of hypocalcemia induced bronchospasm is important in clinical practice to optimize management and provide improvement in symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-93220772022-07-27 Hypocalcemia Induced Bronchospasm Kumari, Aneeta Nangrani, Kunal Dolkar, Tsering Arora, Amita Schmidt, Marie Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Bronchospasm is acute narrowing of the airways of lungs, which gives rise to wheezing and shortness of breath. Commonly seen in obstructive lung disease, but a rare finding in patients with hypocalcemia. This is a case that outlines a rare presentation of hypocalcemia induced bronchospasm in a patient with no known history of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this report, we present a case of a 57 years old male with no history of asthma or COPD who presented with intractable bronchospasm. Initial work-up for common entities was negative. Patient was found to be profoundly hypocalcemic and treatment provided resolution of symptoms. Early recognition of hypocalcemia induced bronchospasm is important in clinical practice to optimize management and provide improvement in symptoms. Cureus 2022-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9322077/ /pubmed/35903573 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26339 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kumari 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.
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title_short Hypocalcemia Induced Bronchospasm
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topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322077/
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