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- Romeo Fernandez, Ambika Ashraf, and Leon S Dure.
- Department of Pediatrics/Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children's Hospital, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35233, USA. rfernandez@peds.uab.edu
- J. Child Neurol. 2007 Jan 1;22(1):74-6.
AbstractThe authors describe a pediatric patient with repaired hypoplastic left heart syndrome developing protein-losing enteropathy, hypocalcemia, vitamin D deficiency, and hemichorea. After correction of nutritional vitamin D deficiency with calcium and vitamin D supplementation, the chorea resolved. Hypoalbuminemia also improved after the correction of vitamin D deficiency without requiring albumin infusions. This report also raises the possible role of calcium or vitamin D in the intestinal loss of albumin in protein-losing enteropathy.
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