Impaired parathyroid response to induced hypocalcemia in thalassemia major.
Impaired parathyroid response to induced hypocalcemia in thalassemia major.
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重型地中海贫血引起的低钙血症甲状旁腺反应受损。
DOI:
10.1016/s0022-3476(79)80653-8
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发表时间:
1979
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Myron Genet
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作者:
Joseph M. Gertner;A. Broadus;Constantine S. Anast;Margaret Grey;Howard A. Pearson;Myron Genet
Ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid-induced hypocalcemia was used as a provocative test of parathyroid reserve in eight normocalcemic patients with thalassemia major (age 8 to 26 years) and five young adult control subjects (age 22 to 35). In response to an intravenous infusion of disodium EDTA (50 mg/kg), serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone rose by 1.97±1.93 (SD) μlEq/ml in the patients, controls showing a rise of 10.6±3.6 μlEq/ml (t=5.46,P<0.001). There was no relationship between parathyroid response and total iron burden as measured by serum ferritin- or desferrioxamine-induced urinary iron excretion. Impairment of parathyroid reserve is common in transfused patients with thalassemia major and may serve as a marker of significant iron overload.