REVERSIBLE METASTATIC CALCIFICATION (MILK DRINKER'S SYNDROME)

摘要: Burnett and co-workers, 1 in 1949, first reported metastatic calcification associated with excessive intake of milk alkali patients chronic peptic ulcer renal insufficiency. While all their six showed clinical improvement when were withdrawn from the diet, none resorption calcinosis survived. Since that time a case has been survival following gastrectomy for ulcer, although persisted. 2 Another was presented acute symptoms resembling gout which both decreased but recurred former high diet 3 resumed. Wermer, Kuschner, Riley 4 an instance disappearance extensive skeletal subcutaneous calcifications within eight months after removed diet. Their patient, 67-year-old man, died