Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Fahr’s syndrome in characterized by bilateral calcifications in basal ganglia, dentate nucleus and semioval center. Its clinical manifestations are a rigid hypokinetic syndrome, mood disorders and cognitive impairment. The most frequent aetiology of this syndrome is, together with idiopatic causes and congenital infections, calcium disorders, mainly primary hypoparathyroidism, accounting for up to 80% of all causes.Case report: A 57-ye...