A study of parathyroid hormone, calcitonin and calcium in blood of patients with psoriatic arthritis

Milevskaia, S.G.

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii 2: 53-55

1989


ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4609
PMID: 2728608
Document Number: 339809
Clinical and biochemical examinations and radioimmunoassays, carried out in 52 patients suffering from psoriatic arthritis, have revealed abnormal levels of total and ionized blood calcium and of calcium-regulating hormones. An imbalance of calcitropic hormones and abnormal calcium metabolism promote the development of osteoporosis in psoriatic arthritis.

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