Hypercalcaemia associated with tuberculosis.

Hypercalcaemia associated with tuberculosis.

Symptomatic hypercalcaemia in paediatric tuberculosis

A 13-yr-old Congolese female presented in early spring with a 6-month history of productive cough, progressive exertional dyspnoea and weight loss of 4.5 kg. 2 weeks prior to presentation she had developed high fevers and increasing lethargy. She had immigrated to the UK at the age of 2 yrs. She had not been overseas since and there was no history of contact with anyone with tuberculosis (TB). ...

Hypercalcaemia and hypokalaemia in tuberculosis.

In two patients with extensive pulmonary tuberculosis who developed hypercalcaemia and hypokalaemia the hypercalcaemia appeared related to the use of small doses of vitamin D, which suggested patients with tuberculosis were hypersensitive to vitamin D. They were thus similar to patients with sarcoidosis, and it is interesting that the Kveim test result was positive in both cases. The hypercalca...

Hypercalcaemia associated with cerebral vasospasm causing infarction.

Central nervous system disorders are not uncommon in patients with hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcaemia. Usually these consist of neuropsychiatric disturbances but acute encephalopathies and seizures may occur. A rare manifestation is cerebral infarction. A patient is presented with neuroradiological evidence of infarction caused by cerebral arterial spasm which appears related to hypercalcae...

Hypercalcaemia Associated with Neonatal Subcutaneous Fat Necrosis.

Localized neonatal subcutaneous fat necrosis has been well recognized since the description of Fabyan (1907). Since then many case reports have been published: thus Masi and Brancolini (1956) collected 179 reported cases. Calcium deposition in affected tissues was described by Harrison and McNee (1926) and a raised serum calcium was reported in one of their cases. The association of this condit...