title: Vitamin D metabolites in spasmophilia.
abstract: The comparison of 20 untreated spasmophilic patients (2 men, 18 women) with 25 healthy subjects revealed no significant differences in vitamin D metabolite plasma levels or in other laboratory indexes of calcium metabolism except for ionized and cytosolic free calcium levels which were lower in the former group (P less than 0.01; P less than 0.001). After 3 months treatment with calcitonin and 25-hydroxyvitamin D there was a clear improvement in patient symptoms, no significant modification of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels and significant increases in 25-hydroxyvitamin D, cytosolic free calcium and urinary calcium (P less than 0.001, P less than 0.001 and P less than 0.01, respectively). We conclude that high plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D play an important role in restoring normal cytosolic free calcium levels and reducing clinical manifestations in spasmophilia.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Scienze Mediche, University of Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Caraceni
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Gandolini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Campanini
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Iannetta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ortolani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002112:Calcifediol / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002116:Calcitonin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013746:Tetany / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism*; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D; D002116:Calcitonin; D002112:Calcifediol; D002118:Calcium