Summary
Differentials
Common
- Iatrogenic postsurgical hypoparathyroidism
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hyperventilation
Uncommon
- Isolated hypoparathyroidism
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Autoimmune hypoparathyroidism
- HIV-related hypoparathyroidism
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hyperphosphatemia
- Hypercalciuria
- Sepsis
- Burns
- Renal failure
- Acute pancreatitis
- Extensive osteoblastic skeletal metastasis
- Hungry bone syndrome
- Drug-induced hypocalcemia
- Multiple transfusions
- Hypoalbuminemia
- Drug interference with assay
- Infiltrative hypoparathyroidism
- DiGeorge syndrome and other developmental complexes
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Tumor lysis syndrome
- Constitutively activating calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) abnormalities (mutations or autoimmune activation)
- Vitamin D resistance or receptor mutations
Contributors
Authors
Consultant Endocrinologist/Service Lead for Endocrinology
Department of Endocrinology
Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Birmingham
UK
Disclosures
JA declares that he has no competing interests.
Consultant Endocrinologist and Honorary Professor of Endocrinology
Department of Endocrinology
Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Birmingham
UK
Disclosures
NG declares that he has no competing interests.
Dr John Ayuk and Prof Neil Gittoes would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Berhane Seyoum, a previous contributor to this monograph. BS declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore
MD
Disclosures
SB declares that he has no competing interests.
Associate Professor of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus
OH
Disclosures
LK declares that he has no competing interests.
Consultant and Senior Lecturer
Endocrine Unit
Newcastle University and Royal Victoria Infirmary
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
UK
Disclosures
RQ has been reimbursed by Amgen, the manufacturer of cinacalcet, for attending a conference and for giving an educational seminar (total under £1,200 over past 3 years).
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