COEXISTENT IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND PERNICIOUS ANEMIA IN A YOUNG GIRL: CASE REPORT
Authors: D J REISNER, R M ELLSWORTH
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1955)

Case Reports1 November 1955COEXISTENT IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND PERNICIOUS ANEMIA IN A YOUNG GIRL: CASE REPORTDAVID J. REISNER, M.D., ROBERT M. ELLSWORTH, M.D.DAVID J. REISNER, M.D., ROBERT M. ELLSWORTH, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-5-1116 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIdiopathic hypoparathyroidism is a rare disease beginning more often in childhood or adolescence. In 1952 Steinberg and Waldron1reviewed 51 cases of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism and reported an additional case. They adhered to the criteria established by Drake et al.:2(1) low serum calcium; (2) serum inorganic phosphorus greater than 5.0 mg. per 100 ml. in adults and 7.0 mg. per 100 ml. in patients aged 16 years and younger; (3) absence of renal insufficiency; (4) normal bones by roentgenogram to exclude infantile rickets or adult osteomalacia as the cause of hypocalcemia; and (5) chronic tetany. Of these 52 cases, 36...Bibliography1. SteinbergWaldron HBR: Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, Medicine 31: 133, 1952. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. DrakeAlbrightBauerCastleman TGFWB: Chronic idiopathic hypoparathyroidism: report of six cases with autopsy findings in one, Ann. Int. Med. 12: 1751, 1939. LinkGoogle Scholar3. Wintrobe M: Textbook of hematology, 3rd Ed., 1951, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, pp. 432, 449-450. Google Scholar4. Askey JM: Addisonian pernicious anemia without achlorhydria. Does it exist? Gastroenterology 2: 1, 1944. Google Scholar5. ReisnerWolffMcKayDoyle EHJARJEF: Juvenile pernicious anemia, Pediatrics 8: 88, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. EllsworthHoward RJE: Studies in the physiology of the parathyroid glands. VII. Some responses of normal human kidneys and blood to intravenous parathyroid extract, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 55: 296, 1934. Google Scholar7. AlbrightReifenstein FEC: The parathyroid glands and metabolic bone disease, 1948, Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, pp. 40-45. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: DAVID J. REISNER, M.D.; ROBERT M. ELLSWORTH, M.D.Affiliations: New York, N. Y.*Received for publication July 27, 1954.From the Department of Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital, New York, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe Parathyroids and the GutPernicious Anemia and Widespread Absence of Gastrointestinal Endocrine Cells in a Patient with Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type I and MalabsorptionHypoparathyroidismThe ParathyroidsNeonatal Megaloblastic Anemia Due to Inherited Transcobalamin II Deficiency in Two SiblingsCLINICAL SPECTRUM OF AUTO-IMMUNE LIVER DISEASEDie megaloblastischen AnämienIdiopathic hypoparathyroidismVitamin B12-Resorptionsstörungen bei HypocalcämieGastric Biopsy—A Critical EvaluationChildhood Pernicious AnemiaTeilungsstörungen der Erythropoese: Perniciosa-Syndrom und Erythroblastopenie-SyndromJuvenile pernicious anaemia.Moniliasis-an Internal Disease?AddendumJuvenile Pernicious AnemiaMalabsorptionPernicious anemia in a young girlassociated with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, familial Addison's disease, and moniliasisHypoparathyroidism and Pernicious AnaemiaA Possible Autoimmune Basis for Addison's Disease in Three Siblings, One with Idiopathic Hypoparathyroidism, Pernicious Anemia and Superficial MoniliasisFamilial Juvenile Pernicious Anaemia: A Study of the Hereditary Basis of Pernicious AnaemiaHypoparathyroidismMegaloblastic AnaemiasOCULAR MANIFESTATIONS OF IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISMFamilial Hypoparathyroidism with Pernicious Anemia, Steatorrhea and Adrenocortical InsufficiencyIDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM: REPORT OF A CASE WITH AUTOPSY FINDINGS*I. J. KOPIN, M.D., I. N. ROSENBERG, M.D.SEVERE SECONDARY OCULAR CHANGES IN A PATIENT SUFFERING FROM IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM AND PERNICIOUS ANAEMIACLINICAL FEATURES OF IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM IN CHILDRENCONTROL OF WATER AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERSSPONTANEOUS HYPOPARATHYROIDISM WITH MEGALOBLASTIC ANÆMIAUTERINE DYSFUNCTION DURING LABOUR 1 November 1955Volume 43, Issue 5Page: 1116-1124KeywordsAnemiaCalciumComaEpileptic seizuresHospital medicineHypocalcemiaHypoparathyroidismPernicious anemiaPhosphorusYoung adults ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1955 PDF downloadLoading ...