Endocrine Abstracts

Patients (pts) with hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT) are at risk to develop renal failure possibly caused by hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis. We retrospectively evaluated the data of 711 Patients with HypoPT in 3 endocrine centres in Germany.Methods: Records of 711 pts with HypoPT were reviewed. Patients were predominantly female (n=592, male: n=119; age 50.9±14.1 years, range 12 – 99 years). The following parameters were docum...

Care of patients (pts.) with hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT) is a challenge, because pts. are usually not treated with the absent hormone, but with several forms of vitamine D. We retrospectively evaluated the data of pts. with HypoPT in three endocrine centres in Germany.Methods: Records of 711 pts. with HypoPT (Centre 1 (C1): n=381, C2: n=253, C3: n=77) were reviewed (female: 592, male: 119). The following data under treatment (t...

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...