hypophosphatemia
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Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Hypophosphatemia
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Low blood phosphate, phosphate deficiency, hypophosphataemia
- Medical condition (new).image
- Phosphate Group.svg
- Medical condition (new).caption
- Phosphate group chemical structure
- Medical condition (new).field
- Endocrinology
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Weakness, trouble breathing, loss of appetite
- Medical condition (new).complications
- Seizures, coma, rhabdomyolysis, softening of the bones
- Medical condition (new).causes
- Alcohol use disorder, refeeding in those with malnutrition, hyperventilation, diabetic ketoacidosis, burns, certain medications
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Blood phosphate < 0.81 mmol/L (2.5 mg/dL)
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Based on the underlying cause, phosphate
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- 2% (people in hospital)
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- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
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- Commons category
- Hypophosphatemia
- health specialty
- endocrinology
- ICPC 2 ID
- A91
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002148
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C37977
- opposite of
- hyperphosphatemia
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
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Hypophosphatemia is an electrolyte disorder in which there is a low level of phosphate in the blood. Symptoms may include weakness, trouble breathing, and loss of appetite. Complications may include seizures, coma, rhabdomyolysis, or softening of the bones.
Nutritional phosphate deficiency is exceedingly rare as phosphate is abundant in most types of foods and is readily passively absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract; hypophosphatemia is thus typically a result of diseases or an adverse effect of medical treatments. Causes include alcohol use disorder, refeeding in those with malnutrition, recovery from diabetic ketoacidosis, burns, hyperventilation, and certain medications. It may also occur in the setting of hyperparathyroidism, hypothyroidism, and Cushing syndrome.
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