Background: Retarded growth in thalassemic patient is complex and multi-factorial, it includes chronic hypoxia secondary to anemia when pre-transfusion haemoglobin below 9 g/dl. Development of sexual characteristics children markedly delayed as compared their non-thalassemic siblings the expected development criteria due iron overload. The main objective present study monitor these patients lon...

Cockburn, F., Brown, J. K., Belton, N. R., and Forfar, J. 0. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 99. Neonatal convulsions associated with primary disturbance of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium metabolism. The biochemical relations in 75 newborn infants suffering from convulsions considered to be due to a primary disturbance of mineral metabolism have been studied. Hypocalcaemia was...

Hypocalcaemia is a common metabolic disorder of post-parturient dairy cows; enhancement our knowledge regarding Ca dynamics would improve cow health and welfare. This study investigated the presence time- severity-related subclinical hypocalcaemia (SCHCa) patterns in Holstein cows after calving their association with diseases during first week lactation. A total 938 from nine herds were blood s...

A 71 year old woman presented with hypocalcaemia in association with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and pernicious anaemia. The hypocalcaemia resolved only when the haemolytic anaemia and pernicious anaemia were successfully treated. The possible pathogenic mechanisms are discussed.

BACKGROUND Hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy is the most common postoperative complication, with a reported incidence from 0.5% to even 50% of the operated patients. Hypoparathyroidism could be a result of careless or inadequate preparation during the surgical procedure. There is a variety of proposed options for the prediction of the incidence of hypocalcaemia. The most effective of them are t...

OBJECTIVE After thyroidectomy hypocalcaemia is the most significant complication for clinicians. In this study, we investigated the factors associated with development of hypocalcaemia after thyroidectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated the patients prospectively for age, gender, preoperative diagnosis, hormonal status, operative time, operating surgeon, existence of parathyroid gland ...

AIMS To investigate a population of individuals with 22q11 deletion syndrome for hypocalcaemia. METHODS A detailed clinical history enquiring into symptoms of hypocalcaemia and blood sampling to assess for hypocalcaemia and hypoparathyroidism, of patients outside the neonatal period known to have the 22q11 microdeletion from fluorescent in situ hybridisation studies was taken. RESULTS Sixty...

symptoms are mild, the hypocalcaemia temporary, and treatment is not required. In a few, those with renal disease, bone disease or steatorrhoea, the hypocalcaemia is likely to be severe and need treatment. The routine management of this type of patient has been described by Dent (1962). We have recently studied two patients who had generalised convulsions after parathyroidectomy despite this ro...

BACKGROUND Measuring blood calcium level is recommended in haemodialysis (HD) patients. The Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes position states that the measurement of ionized calcium (ICa) level is preferred, but in the clinical setting, due to technical difficulties, total calcium (tCa) level is preferred to ICa. AIM The aim of this study was to test the possibility of delayed ICa anal...

Hypocalcaemia is one of the most common major complications after thyroid surgery with the wide range of incidence from 6.9 to 46%. Thyroidectomy is usually first choice treatment for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). The study comprised 46 adult patients operated at Zagreb University Hospital Centre. Intraoperative and postoperative ionized calcium and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) w...