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Hypocalcemia ( a low serum calcium level), not hypercalcemia ( a high serum calcium level), tends to cause muscle spasm and in severe cases may lead to muscle tetany.
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A deficiency of parathyroid hormone can cause involuntary muscle contractions of a type called?
Tetany is the term for the muscle contractions that may be caused by hypoparathyroidism.
What does sudden hypercalcemia do?
Sudden hypercalcemia can cause vomiting and coma
Hyperkalemia or hypokalemia which is more serious?
hyperkalemia as it may cause heart arrythmias and sudden death, where hypokalemia generally just causes malaise, muscle weakness and tetany. hyperkalemia as it may cause heart arrythmias and sudden death, where hypokalemia generally just causes malaise, muscle weakness and tetany.
What is a painful contracted muscle that will not relax called?
Tetany
Name of disease which causes muscle stiffness?
tetany
Can thyrotoxicosis cause hypercalcemia?
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Does a deficiency of calcium in the body result in continuous muscle contractions or tetany?
dom
What is a sustained muscle contraction called?
unfused (incomplete) tetanus
What causes nerve irritability and painful muscle cramps from having hypocalcemia?
Tetany
Does hypocalcemia cause bone pain?
Deffinately. It depends greatly on how low your actual calcium is but I suffer from hypocalcemia and my bones ache alot along with muscle cramps and tetany.
Why impossible for myocardium to go into tetany?
Muscle tetany occurs in muscles without absolute refractory period. The stimulus for contraction comes before the preceding contraction/relaxation is over leading to multiple action potentials without a refractory period. It does not occur in cardiac muscle because it has absolute refractory period during which the muscle cannot be excited, thus making tetany impossible
Tetany resulting from uncontrolled muscle spasms may indicate a malfunction of the?
parathyroid gland
