ALLMedicine™ Hypocalcemia Center

May 14th, 2022 - The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy of daily versus weekly oral vitamin D3 therapy in radiological healing of nutritional rickets. Children 6 months to 12 years (n=132) diagnosed with nutritional rickets were randomized into three gro...

May 14th, 2022 - Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by systolic dysfunction and is usually idiopathic. A rare cause of reversible DCM is hypocalcemia. Calcium plays a key role in myocardial contraction. Hypocalcemia can lead to a decrease in contraction...

May 14th, 2022 - Hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia (HSH) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by pathogenic variants in TRPM6, encoding the channel-kinase Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin type 6. Patients have very low serum Mg2+ levels an...

May 13th, 2022 - Approximately one million plateletpheresis procedures are performed each year in the U.S., including 3,500 in the Platelet Center of the Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH. Healthy donors are eligible to undergo plateletpheresis as often as 2...

May 4th, 2022 - Thyroidectomies involve meticulous dissection of a highly vascularized organ and complications may develop, such as hematoma, hypocalcemia, and even hypoparathyroidism. Because some of these complications may be fatal, we sought to identify the di...

Jun 28th, 2019 - Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have become a promising treatment for advanced malignancies. However, these drugs can induce immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in several organs, including skin, gastrointestinal tract, liver, muscle, nerve,...

Jun 1st, 2018 - Hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) is the most common complication following bilateral thyroid operations. Thyroid surgeons must employ strategies for minimizing and preventing post-thyroidectomy hypoPT. The objective of this American Thyroid Association...

May 13th, 2022 - Approximately one million plateletpheresis procedures are performed each year in the U.S., including 3,500 in the Platelet Center of the Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH. Healthy donors are eligible to undergo plateletpheresis as often as 2...

Mar 25th, 2022 - COVID 19 is a current worldwide pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 "SARS-CoV-2". Hypovitaminosis D and hypocalcaemia have been reported to be associated with COVID 19 infection, they are considered good biomarkers o...

Feb 28th, 2022 - Precis: Patients with confirmed or suspected primary hyperparathyroidism or complications therefrom (such as postoperative hypoparathyroidism) will be admitted for diagnosis and treatment. The principal diagnostic components are calcium in serum a...

Feb 8th, 2022 - Studies that evaluate differences between filter-based vs. centrifuge based TPE are lacking. Heparin-based TPE is the most commonly used method of anti-coagulation when performing filter-based TPE. Citrate anticoagulation is FDA approved for use d...

Jan 31st, 2022 - The hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy is one of common surgical complications. It may be asymptomatic, but patients can complain of dysfunction around the mouth or extremities, stiffness or convulsion in severe cases. The incidence of transie...

Jan 20th, 2022 - The Swedish medical technology company Getinge is issuing a recall of the Vaporizer Sevoflurane Maquet Filling for Flow Family Anesthesia Systems due to risk of chemical exposure. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified this as a Clas...

Sep 8th, 2021 - In patients with advanced RET fusion–positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), pralsetinib (Gavreto) demonstrated promising results regardless of previous therapies, according to data from the Chinese cohort of the global ARROW study (BLU-667-1...

Jun 6th, 2021 - The investigational dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist tirzepatide significantly reduced HbA1c levels and induced weight loss in patients with type 2 diabetes compared with insulin glargine in the SURPASS-4 trial, Eli Lilly announced. A randomize...

May 8th, 2021 - November 13, 2020 -The genetically modified herpes simplex-1 (HSV-1) oncolytic RP2 demonstrated encouraging clinical activity and an acceptable safety profile in heavily pretreated patients with advanced solid tumors, according to findings from a ...

Apr 2nd, 2021 - For High-Definition, Click Endocrinologists maintain an important role in the treatment of patients with thyroid cancer, from diagnosis through systemic therapy. As a result, it is important for endocrinologists to understand the implications of...