COEXISTENT IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND PERNICIOUS ANEMIA IN A YOUNG GIRL: CASE REPORT

1 November 1955

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 43 (5) , 1116-1124
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-5-1116

Abstract

A case is reported in which severe hypocalcemia with associated hyperphosphatemia was 1st discovered when the patient at the age of 7 had a tetanic convulsion followed by coma. At the age of 12 she developed a macrocytic anemia characterized by megaloblastic bone marrow and histamine-fast achlorhydria. Her clinical course between admissions has reflected the adequacy of therapy for conditions diagnosed at the age of 14 as idiopathic hypoparathyroidism with coexistent pernicious anemia.

Keywords

PERNICIOUS ANEMIA
IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM

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CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; REPORT OF SIX CASES WITH AUTOPSY FINDINGS IN ONE
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1939