A 69-year-old woman presented last week for consultation regarding hypercalcemia due to primary hyperparathyroidism. She has had elevated total calcium on multiple occasions: 10.9, 11.5 and 11.9 mg/dL ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnancy rates did not differ between women with primary hyperparathyroidism and healthy controls. There were ...

When it comes to identifying primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT), choline positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) may be the way to go. In a meta-analysis of 119 comparative ...

Familial clustering was identified in primary hyperparathyroidism, as first-degree relatives were at higher risk than control patients.

CHICAGO — Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is more common than previously thought and often goes unrecognized because physicians aren't checking parathyroid (PTH) hormone levels in over half of ...

THIS report concerns 2 male sibs with hypercalcemia caused by neonatal familial primary hyperparathyroidism. In the literature there are only a few reports of familial hyperparathyroidism. 1,2 These ...

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in pregnancy is a rare but significant endocrine disorder, characterised by excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone leading to hypercalcaemia. The physiological ...

Background Familial isolated primary hyperparathyroidism (FIHP) is an autosomal dominant disorder that can represent an early stage of either the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) or ...

In the hormonal disorder primary hyperparathyroidism, patients' risk of hip fracture is elevated by 51%, and that of heart attack or stroke 45%. These are results from a major study from the ...

Patients with kidney stones who visited both a nephrologist and a urologist had a 6.6-fold higher likelihood of receiving testing for primary hyperparathyroidism, according to a study of veterans.

Background: A 30-year-old woman with suspected multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) was referred to our center in 2001 with primary hyperparathyroidism caused by a multiglandular parathyroid ...

A 17-year-old man presented at the clinic with thirst, lethargy and fatigue that had been ongoing for several months. His family physician had noted hypercalcemia, and the patient had been referred ...