Friday, December 12, 2008

calcium



Booyah! I can access this website at work! I'm surprised that this website wasn't tagged as invalid content. We are talking about calicum disorders in our noon lecture right now. In particular we're talking about hyperparathyroidism now.

Mechanisms of PTH
- indirect bone resorbtion (receptor on the osteoblast)
- phosphorus wasting by kidneys
- activation of vitamin D from 25-OH to 1,25 OH
- increased calcium excretion by the kidney
- bicarb wasting causing a metabolic acidosis

MEN I presents with multiple parathyroid adeomas

Case #1 FHH
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would have had more here but computer battery died in lecture. oops!

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