Second Chances in Mineral Metabolism

Second chances in mineral metabolism.

T he optimal management of disordered mineral metabolism in patients with chronic kidney disease has been among the most controversial topics in clinical nephrology during the past decade. The origins of the current controversies can be traced back to the initial reports from large-scale human studies of important associations between individual mineral metabolites—calcium, phosphorus, parathyr...

Second chances.

An 81-year-old woman presented with light perception vision in her left eye and had pallid swelling of the left optic disk. Temporal artery biopsy was normal. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed enlargement and enhancement of the left orbital optic nerve. There were vitreous cells, but a vitrectomy specimen showed only a benign lymphocytic population. Her vision deteriorated to no light percept...

Mineral Metabolism

Mineral metabolism in mania.

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Altered Mineral Metabolism

A B S T R A C T Parameters of mineral and bone metabolism were studied in 17 patients treated chronically with supraphysiologic doses of glucocorticoids. When compared to 15 matched normal subjects, the patient group exhibited similar serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) levels, decreased intestinal 47Ca absorption, increased serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone, and decreased forearm bone ma...