PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D. P. Brenton
AU  - J. Gonzales
AU  - A. B. Pollard
TI  - Hypocalcaemic cardiac failure.
AID  - 10.1136/pgmj.54.635.633
DP  - 1978 Sep 01
TA  - Postgraduate Medical Journal
PG  - 633--636
VI  - 54
IP  - 635
4099  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/635/633.short
4100  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/635/633.full
SO  - Postgrad Med J1978 Sep 01; 54
AB  - A 35-year-old patient who presented with recurrent chest infection, pulmonary oedema and cardiac failure was found to be grossly hypocalcaemic owing to previously undiagnosed hypoparathyroidism. The cardiac failure was not easily relieved by digoxin and diuretics but it quickly responded when the plasma calcium was restored to normal with dihydrotachysterol. With dihydrotachysterol as sole treatment for more than 2.5 years he had normal exercise tolerance and no features of cardiac failure.