PURPOSE To describe the clinical characteristics of full-term neonates with hypocalcemia and to suggest factors associated with neonatal hypocalcemia. METHODS The medical records of full-term neonates with hypocalcemia were reviewed. Hypocalcemia was defined as an ionized calcium (iCa) concentration of <4 mg/dL. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) insufficiency was defined as a serum PTH level of <60 p...

Aim: We aimed to investigate correlation between the effects of age, sex, disease, pathologic diagnosis, parathyroid autotransplantation, presence in pathology specimen and clinicopathological variables thyroid volume, postoperative hypocalcemia after bilateral total thyroidectomy.&#x0D; Material Method: A retrospective study planned tertiary university hospital on patients undergone thyroidect...

Results Transient, mild but significant decrease of serum calcium levels was observed after surgery in up to a fifth of patients, while severe hypocalcemia was shown in about 5% of patients. The reduction of calcemia was more evident in elderly patients, with a concomitant reduction of albuminemia. In severe hypocalcemia, in addition to these two findings, decrease of parathormone levels was sh...

Hypocalcemia following total thyroidectomy (TT) must be considered permanent in patients requiring calcium replacement after one year. The aim of this study was to identify early risk factors predicting long-term outcome of postoperative hypocalcemia. Among 453 patients who underwent TT from January 1998 to May 2003, a cross-sectional study between 44 patients with transient hypocalcemia (9.7%)...

Etiology of neonatal seizures (NNS) is diverse and hypocalcemia is one of the treatable causes. Neonatal hypocalcemia (NHC) due to congenital hypoparathyroidism, either permanent or transient, is extremely rare. Its biochemical abnormalities include hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and low levels of intact parathyroid hormone (PTH). Isolated congenital hypoparathyroidism in which deficiency of P...

Milk fever is one of the most historically relevant diseases dairy cows. It caused by tremendous calcium (Ca) expenditure at initiation lactation, so severe that cows can no longer stand and, if left untreated, die. Fortunately, through prepartum nutritional improvements, this version clinical hypocalcemia rare in United States. Nonetheless, opinion all versions postpartum are detrimental remai...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to determine the incidence and evaluate the risk factors for hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy and to investigate how many parathyroid glands should be preserved to prevent postoperative hypocalcemia. METHODS From March 2007 to February 2011, a retrospective review of 866 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and node dissection for thyroid cancer...

background transient hypocalcemia is one of the postoperative complications of thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules, and intraoperative and postoperative intact parathyroid hormone (ipth) assays are used to predict postoperative hypocalcemia. objectives the current study was conducted to evaluate a single serum ipth measurement on postoperative day 1 (pod 1) as a means to predict hypocalcemia occu...

Maternal primary hyperparathyroidism causing hypercalcemia during pregnancy can suppress fetal and neonatal parathyroid hormone secretion. We report a newborn with transient hypoparathyroidism presented by hypocalcemic seizure and tetany on the 21st postnatal day in whom the final diagnosis was asymptomatic maternal primary hyperparathyroidism. Neonatal hypocalcemia usually occurs early in life...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of moderate-to-severe transient neonatal hypocalcemia in term neonates and to describe the characteristics of affected infants and the outcomes of their management. METHODS We reviewed medical records of all term infants <31 days of age who presented to Children's Medical Center Dallas from 2001 to 2009 with hypocalcemia (ionized calcium <1.00 mmol/L [4.00...