Endocrine Abstracts

We present a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian woman with combined primary hypoparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency resulting in life-threatening hypocalcaemia.She has a history of COPD and initially presented in 2002 with an exacerbation of her airways disease. During treatment for her condition an incidental note was made of hypocalcaemia (calcium 1.62 mmol/l). PTH was minimally elevated at the time but 25-hydroxycholecalciferol was low (4.2 ng/ml). S...