DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Vitamin D testing (serum)
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids. In humans Vitamin D is unique both because it functions as a prohormone and because when sun exposure is adequate the body can synthesize it (as Vitamin D3). Measures of the serum levels refect endogenous synthesis from sun exposure as well as intake from the diet and it is believed that synthesis may contribute generally to the maintenance of adequate serum concentrations. The evidence indicates that the synthesis of vitamin D from sun exposure works in a feedback loop that prevents toxicity but, because of uncertainty about the cancer risk from sunlight, no recommendations are issued by the Institute of Medicine for the amount of sun exposure required to meet vitamin D requirements...
Vitamin D testing (serum) - List of case studies
- Possible Vitamin D/ Parathyroid Hormone Abnormality_1
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51-year-old female with vitamin D deficiency and incompatibility between the PTH and vitamin D levels. She ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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MANAGEMENT I recommend testing of levels of vitamin B12 in the serum. Many patients with MS suffer from vitamin B12 ... and this may aggravate their gait disability. Vitamin D testing in the blood is also important (low levels may have negative ...
- Vitamin D Abnormality / Parathyroid Hormone Abnormality
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51-year-old female with vitamin D deficiency among other medical problems: high blood pressure, episodes of ...
- spreading pancreatic cancer
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Other medications, such as calcimimetics or vitamin D analogues suppress parathyroid hormone release, or counteract ... respect to the metastatic islet cell tumor, I recommend testing baseline gastrin and insulin . It appears that the patient's ...
- List of Examinations
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articles it is mentioned in | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | M | N | O | P ... 24-hour urine collection 25 25 hydroxy vitamin D 25(OH)D serum level 3D reconstruction CAT scan A ...