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Richard Sobel, MD; Shlomo Einhorn, MD; Maximo Maislos, MD; Ruth Shainkin-Kestenbaum, PhD; Shraga Shany, PhD; Jacob Horowitz, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1985;145(11):2043-2044.

Abstract
• During an epidemic of measles, 12 young adults developed hypocalcemia associated with a decrease in parathyroid hormone level. Calcium and parathyroid hormone levels returned to normal in five of the 12 patients for whom convalescent data were available.

(Arch Intern Med 1985;145:2043-2044)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Internal Medicine (Drs Sobel, Einhorn, Maislos, Shainkin-Kestenbaum, and Horowitz) and the Toor Institute (Dr Shany), Soroka Hospital and Faculty of the Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan 28, 1984.

Reprint requests to Department of Internal Medicine A, Soroka Medical Center, PO Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel (Dr Einhorn).

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