ABDOMINAL SYMPTOMS, HYPERCALCEMIA AND APATHETIC HYPERTHYROIDISM - TREATMENT WITH PAMIDRONATE

Authors
GHOSE RR PALMER DJ YAQOOB M HABOUBI N RATCLIFFE WA
Citation
Rr. Ghose et al., ABDOMINAL SYMPTOMS, HYPERCALCEMIA AND APATHETIC HYPERTHYROIDISM - TREATMENT WITH PAMIDRONATE, British journal of clinical practice, 48(3), 1994, pp. 163-164
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
British journal of clinical practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070947
Volume
48
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
163 - 164
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0947(1994)48:3<163:ASHAAH>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A 24-year-old man with anorexia, repeated bouts of vomiting, and wasti ng was found to have florid thyrotoxicosis and hypercalcaemia. Pamidro nate promptly reduced the serum calcium concentration to normal, and s imultaneously abated the abdominal symptoms, which did not recur in sp ite of continuing severe hyperthyroidism, which was eventually control led by radioactive iodine ablation of thyroid activity.