AN UNUSUAL CASE OF IDIOPATHIC HYPOPARATHYROIDISM, ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY, HYPOTHYROIDISM AND METASTATIC CALCIFICATION

Abstract

A case of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, adrenal insufficiency and hypothyroidism is presented. The patient, a female, was 3½ years old when the diagnosis of idiopathic hypoparathyroidism was first made. At the age of 5½ the first evidence of adrenal insufficiency developed, and the picture was complete one and a half years later. At this time hypothyroidism had developed, which proved to be primary in nature. This patient demonstrated roentgenographic calcification of the lungs, in the absence of abnormally high serum calcium levels or calcium-phosphorus concentration products, and without evidence of local tissue damage due to a chronic inflammatory process.