Renal insufficiency and hypercalcemia

The hypercalcemia of adrenal insufficiency.

Hypercalcemia with renal failure.

We report a cse of nephrocalcinosis with renal failure which on evaluation was found to have hypercalcemia. Further investigations showed an inappropriately normal intact parathormone (iPTH) and 1,25 dihydroxy-vitamin D level in the setting of renal failure. Probing for a cause of non-PTH mediated hypercalcemia led to the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. Treatment with glucocorticoids could partially ...

Adrenal insufficiency presenting as hypercalcemia and acute kidney injury

Adrenal insufficiency is an uncommon cause of hypercalcemia and not easily considered as an etiology of adrenal insufficiency in clinical practice, as not all cases of adrenal insufficiency manifest as hypercalcemia. We report a case of secondary adrenal insufficiency presenting as hypercalcemia and acute kidney injury in a 66-year-old female. The patient was admitted to the emergency departmen...

Renal insufficiency and failure.

Renal impairment is a common complication of multiple myeloma. Chronic renal failure is classified according to glomerular filtration rate as estimated by the MDRD (modification of diet in renal disease) formula, while RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage renal disease) and AKIN (acute renal injury network) criteria may be used for the definition of the severity of acute renal injur...

Hypercalcemia, Renal Failure, and Skull Lytic Lesions

A 69-year-old woman with a past history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and dyslipidemia was admitted for rapidly progressive muscle weakness. She was previously asymptomatic until 8 weeks prior to admission when she started having predominantly proximal muscle weakness, mild back pain, poor appetite, and dysgeusia. She reported losing 30 to 40 pounds over the same time period. On adm...