Endocrine Abstracts

A 65 year old patient who was hospitalised for a reactive arthritis of the knee due to Rickettsia infection, presented an asymptomatic persistant chronic hypocalcemia and hyperphosphoremia. In her medical history, we noted a hypertension treated with amlodipine and bisoprolol, syndrome of sleep apnoea, acquired lumbar spinal canal stenosis and sequelae of poliomyelitis acquired at 10 years of age in Congo, her place of origin. According to her blood test results, total calcium...