Idiopathic Hypoparathyroidism in the Newborn

Abstract

Although idiopathic hypoparathyroidism is an uncommon disease, the incidence of onset in childhood is relatively high. In a review of the literature in 1952, Steinberg reported the onset of the disease before 16 years of age in 34 of 52 patients.1 Of these, only 2 became symptomatic during the first years of life and none during the neonatal period. Often the diagnosis was made in adult life, and the onset in infancy or childhood was established only by history. Bronsky et al.2 and Kopin and Rosenberg 3 also emphasized the fact that symptoms occurred in more than two-thirds of the patients before the age