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SUBMITTER: Richa CG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288569 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richa Carine Ghassan CG Issa Ali Ihsan AI Echtay Akram Salim AS El Rawas Mohamad Souheil MS
Case reports in endocrinology 20181127
The objective of this study is to report a case of severe hypocalcemia secondary to hypoparathyroidism in a pregnant woman. We report a case of a 45-year-old woman who presented for tonico-clonic seizure in the third trimester of gestation. She was diagnosed with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism for the first time during pregnancy. She was successfully treated with calcium and calcitriol in the rest of her pregnancy with resolution of symptoms but her infant was born with hypercalcemia and secondar ...[more]