Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Patients with hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) suffer from a number of complaints and reduced quality of life (QoL) besides having serum values for disease-specific parameters in the target range. To be able to quantify symptoms in hypoPT patients we lately developed a disease-specific questionnaire, the Hypoparathyroidism patient questionnaire with 28 items (HPQ28). The aim of this study was to present normative values for the HPQ28.Methods: A ...

Introduction: Hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) is characterized by inadequately low circulating concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH) followed by low calcium and increased phosphate levels in the blood. Patients with hypoPT suffer from a number of complications and complaints including infections, neuro-psychiatric diseases, abnormal bone architecture impaired muscle function and reduced quality of life. Due to the complexity of the various clinical manifestations there is a ...

In hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT), patients suffer severely from reduced quality of life. The complexity of HypoPT demands a disease-specific control instrument to characterize symptom load. We employed a newly developed disease-specifichypoparathyroid patient questionnaire (the HPQ 40/28) to investigate and quantify HypoPT patients’ complaints and contributing factors. In this cross-sectional, two-center study, patients with postsurgical HypoPT (n = 49) were m...