Tag: "Hypocalcemia"

Why she developed hypocalcemia?

Why she developed hypocalcemia?

25 years old lady presented in OPD with the chief complaints of fever, cough, cold and chest pain since 3 days during physical examination there was presents of crackles in the right middle lobe of the lung .X-ray was done x-ray shows consolidation on right middle lobe of the lung. She was diagnosed as lobar [...]

Why there is hypocalcemia in severe pancreatitis?

According to the modified glasgow criteria for pedicting severity of pancreatitis ,(mnemonic as PANCREAS).Do you  know guys,, why there  is low  serum calcium in patients with severe pancreatitis?? recently i have gone through harrison’s and it is written that, the pathogenesis  is still unknown.it is said that one reason maybe due to intraperitoneal saponification of calcium by fatty [...]