Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism is a rare but reversible cause of acute heart failure that can be treated to recover left ventricular function.
Physicians should look more carefully for the potential reversible causes of acute heart failure, namely hypoparathyroidism. The recovery of left ventricular function with the treatment of hypoparathyroidism underlines the importance of calcium and the reversibility of this type of cardiomyopathy.
Duarte et al. (Thu,) studied this question.