[Clinical approach to patients with hypocalcemia].
Serum calcium (Ca) level is tightly regulated by parathyroid hormone (PTH) and 1,25-dihydoxyvitamin D in human. In practice, however, one should take a look at background factors that have significant effects on Ca and its regulating hormones. Among them vitamin D insufficiency, magnesium (Mg) depletion and treatment with bisphosphonates, glucocorticoids and anticonvulsants are most important.
Toranomon Hospital Endocrine Center, Japan.
Yasuhiro
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Takeuchi
D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004164:Diphosphonates / Q000009:adverse effects; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D008275:Magnesium Deficiency / Q000150:complications; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000502:physiology; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000502:physiology; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000150:complications
D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents; D004164:Diphosphonates; D005938:Glucocorticoids; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D014807:Vitamin D; C097949:1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D