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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease hypocalcemia
Symptom C0018801|heart failure
Sentences 3
PubMedID- 24009458 When treating severe heart failure in patients with hypocalcemia, we should consider that furosemide may induce further hypocalcemia.
PubMedID- 20043335 The cardiovascular episodes and the dilated heart failure were attributed to the chronic hypocalcemia since no other cause was found.
PubMedID- 24044019 This effect probably occurs because the parathyroid hormone increases both the entry of calcium into myocardial cells and the release of endogenous myocardial norepinephrine.9) there have been several case reports of reversible congestive heart failure associated with hypocalcemia caused by hypoparathyroidism, all of which presented with diffuse lv hypokinesia rather than apical ballooning.10)11) we herein report a unique case of reversible cardiomyopathy associated with hypocalcemia secondary to untreated hypoparathyroidism presenting with transient lv apical ballooning rather than diffuse lv hypokinesia.

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