Severe Hypocalcemia and Transient Hypoparathyroidism After Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Horm Metab Res DOI: 10.1055/a-1220-6971Dear Editors,Hypocalcemia is not unusual in patients hospitalized for critical illness and has
also been described after general surgery in addition to head and neck surgical
procedures 1
2
3. Hypocalcemic events commonly
occur in the setting of massive blood transfusion, albumin deficiency, vitamin D
deficiency, and/or hypomagnesemia. In the absence of these factors, only
slight decreases in calcium levels within the normal range have been reported during
surgical procedures 1. Cytoreductive surgery
with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) causing asymptomatic
hypocalcemia has only been reported in two previous studies 4
5.
The etiology is unclear. We here report a patient who developed severe symptomatic
hypocalcemia likely as a result of a profound inflammatory reaction with transient
hypoparathyroidism after HIPEC. [...] © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New YorkArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents | Abstract | Full text
Source: Hormone and Metabolic Research - Category: Endocrinology Authors: Tharmalingam, Senthuran Reddy, Sanjay Sharda, Pankaj Koch, Christian A. Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
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