ESPE Abstracts

Severe hypercalcemia with total serum calcium concentrations above 15 mg/dL is a serious nonspecific life-threatening emerging disorder. Hypercalcemia usually results in nonspecific classic gastrointestinal and skeletal symptoms as anorexia, nausea, weakness, polyuria, constipation and bone pain. It can be associated with metabolic, nutritional, inflammatory, genetic or malignant disorders, or can be drug-induced. Malignancy related hypercalcemia develops more aggressively and...

Background: Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome (WSS) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive multisystem disease. Ectodermal system findings, such as alopecia and changes in facial skin, endocrinological problems including hypogonadism, hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus (DM), and decreased levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), neurological disorders such as hearing loss and progressive extrapyramidal involvement are the components of this syndrome. The syndr...