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Severe hypercalcemic crisis in an infant with idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia caused by mutation in CYP24A1 gene.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Jan 2013
Fencl Filip, Bláhová Květa, Schlingmann Karl Peter, Konrad Martin, Seeman Tomáš
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: We report on a male infant presenting at 4 months of age with failure to thrive, dehydration, hypotonia, lethargy, and vomiting. Laboratory and imaging tests revealed severe hypercalcemia (5.8 mmol/l), suppressed parathyroid hormone (0.41 pmol/l), hypercalciuria (8.0 mmol/mmol creatinine), elevated 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (over 600 nmol/l), and nephrocalcinosis. These symptoms are characteristic of...
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