Vitamin D insufficiency underlies unexpected hypocalcemia following high dose glucocorticoid therapy

Bone

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 226-228

  Kinoshita, Yuka ^a   Masuoka, Kazuhiro ^a   Miyakoshi, Shigesaburo ^a   Taniguchi, Shuichi ^a   Takeuchi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

25 Hydroxyvitamin D; Bisphosphonate; Bone formation; Bone resorption

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; CALCITRIOL; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCIURIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; MUSCLE CRAMP; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE RESORPTION; CALCIUM; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOGENESIS; PHOSPHATES; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 37349066544     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2007.09.042     Document Type: Article

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