Abstract

GUILLEN LOPEZ, Otto Barnaby. Deficiency of vitamin D as cause of severe hypocalcemia in an old woman. Rev Med Hered [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.3, pp.178-181. ISSN 1018-130X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.20453/rmh.v29i3.3407.

Vitamin D deficiency is a very high prevalence condition in older adults and may present as symptomatic hypocalcemia. I present a case of a 75-year-old woman with generalized convulsions due to hypocalcaemia with normal renal and parathyroid function in which vitamin D levels were deficient.

Keywords : Vitamin D deficiency; hypocalcemia; aged.

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