What causes hungry bone syndrome?

Hungry bone syndrome has also been described after thyroidectomy in patients with hyperthyroidism [5,6]. In such patients, the preoperative bone disease is due to high bone turnover induced by excess thyroid hormone. read more

Hungry bone syndrome causes the parathyroid cells to change when the calcium concentration outside of the cells are concentrated. So the extracellular calcium or calcium outside of the cells is considered the first responder to the bones. read more

• 20% developed hungry bone syndrome despite high doses of oral or intravenous calcium and treatment with calcitriol Jofre et al. Kid Int. 2003; 63 (Suppl. 85): S97–S100. read more

Hungry Bone Syndrome is a term that refers to a patient who has such severe symptoms of low blood calcium (hypocalcemia) that they require admission to the hospital for several days (2-10 days) to get IV calcium to make their low-calcium symptoms go away. read more