Bone Abstracts

Background: Hypocalcemia presenting in adolescence is rare. Most common etiology is autoimmune hypoparathyroidism. Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) is a rare group of disorders characterized by end-organ resistance to parathyroid hormone (PTH), and other hormones, such as TSH, with or without features of Albright’s hereditary osteodystrophy.Case presentation: A 14-year-old boy presented complaining of fatigue and spontaneous carpal spasms in associati...

PHP1B -iPPSD3 per the new proposed classification- is a rare disorder characterized in most patients by proximal tubular resistance to PTH resulting in hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and elevated PTH. Loss-of-methylation (LOM) at the Differentially Methylated Region (DMR) at GNAS exon A/B occurs in all PHP1B patients, but methylation changes at other DMRs within GNAS occur in some familial and most sporadic PHP1B cases. All patients with autosomal dominant PHP1B (AD-...