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Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) and neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism (NSHPT) are consequent to inactivating mutations of the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR) gene. FHH is usually associated with heterozygous inactivating mutations of the CaR gene, whereas NSHPT is usually due to
A 49 y.o. man was admitted for investigation of an intense fatigue associated with nausea, vomiting, weight loss and headache. Examination and work-up reveals a moderate hypercalcaemia and a panhypopituitarism attributed to a craniopharyngioma. Extensive work-up has excluded the most frequent causes
The history of illness of an eight-year-old boy is presented. Fifteen days old he had been hospitalized because of vomiting, diarrhoea and prolonged jaundice. Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (genotype PiZZ) was diagnosed. At the age of nearly eight complaints started, such as headache, apathy, nausea
Milk-alkali syndrome is a rare cause of hypercalcemia characterized by the triad of hypercalcemia, renal insufficiency, and metabolic alkalosis that results from the overconsumption of calcium containing products. In the setting of pregnancy where there is a physiologic increase in calcium
Malignancy-associated hypercalcemia (MAH) is one of the clinical emergencies in medical oncology, arising early or, more often, during the late phases of disease. Prevalence cannot be estimated accurately because previous figures of 5-30% of all cancer patients have progressively reduced thanks to
BACKGROUND
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a neurological entity characterized by seizures, headache, and reversible subcortical vasogenic edema. It is associated with many etiologies, most often hypertension, chronic renal failure, and chemotherapy. Hypercalcemia is rarely
Abstract.
BACKGROUND
Incadronate has been found to lessen the increase in corrected serum calcium levels in malignancy-associated hypercalcemia (MAH) in a Phase III study in Japan. The drug is currently used to treat MAH in Japan.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical
A 36-yr-old woman began to suffer from headache, anorexia and general fatigue at 35 weeks' gestation. About 2 or 3 months after the delivery, fever, tachycardia and generalized musculoskeletal disorder appeared. Thereafter, they worsened rapidly, accompanied by a disturbance of consciousness and
A middle-aged lady presented with headache, vomiting of sudden-onset with intermittent evening rise of temperature. She also had slurring of speech with no loss of consciousness or altered sensorium. The patient was under evaluation for hypercalcemia. A whole body bone scan was done to look for
Self-rated psychiatric symptoms were investigated in 30 patients referred for surgery because of primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) (serum calcium, 2.87 +/- 0.21 mmol/L) in 38 subjects detected in a health screening, with 15 years of mild hypercalcemia and probable HPT (serum calcium, 2.66 +/- 0.09
A 17-year-old woman manifested fever, abdominal pain, headache, and hypertension caused by a solitary, benign pheochromocytoma. She also had hypercalcemia and elevated plasma immunoreactive calcitonin levels. After removal of the pheochromocytoma, calcium and calcitonin levels returned to normal.
Retinoids are commonly used for the treatment of nonmalignant skin disorders and occasionally for the treatment of various neoplasms including epidemic Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Dry skin and mucus membranes, muscle and joint aches, alopecia, headaches, and liver and lipid abnormalities are the most
A reversible syndrome of headache, altered mental status, seizures and cerebral visual abnormalities with neuroradiological studies suggesting predominantly posterior white matter abnormalities has been described. This syndrome has been referred to as posterior reversible encephalopathic syndrome
We'll report 2 dialysis cases which came to our clinic for the symptoms caused by hypercalcemia. Patients complained of sleeplessness, itching, headache, palpitation, apathy, akinesis, leanness, foot gangrene and so on. Hypercalcemia is one of the complication of vitamin D and calcium carbonate
Sarcoidosis is a chronic multisystemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, which is characterized by noncaseating granulomatous inflammation of the involved organs. It is known that neurosarcoidosis involving the nervous system occurs in about 5% of patients with sarcoidosis. However,