METHOD FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM BY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL SYMPTOMATICS Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A61B5/16 A61B10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: patient is offered a questionnaire for clinical symptoms assessment. The questionnaire includes 12 questions corresponding to the most frequent complaints among patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, which are divided into 3 domains according to the systems of organs to which they relate: 1- I constantly feel weakness; 2 - drowsiness after getting up in the morning; 3 - it is difficult for me to walk for a long time, I suffocate if I have to go fast; 4 - it is difficult for me to fulfil and it is necessary to limit my leisure time and household duties. Visceral: 1 - back pain; 2 - pain/aches in bones and joints; 3 - I am constantly thirsty; 4 - pain in the abdomen, heartburn, constipation. Psychological: 1 - I feel irritable; 2 - I have a constantly bad mood/depression; 3 - because of the disease, I do not sleep well and wake up at night; 4 - I find it difficult to concentrate on my work. Each positive answer is considered as 1 point. Symptoms severity is assessed by the sum on a 12-point scale and the sum in each of the three domains is assessed separately as a result of objective assessments of clinical symptoms severity.

EFFECT: method allows to obtain precise estimates of the severity of the clinical symptoms of primary hyperparathyroidism, and separately - the manifestation of symptoms associated with the various systems of organs, through evaluation of the clinical symptoms severity.

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