What Is Hypercalcemia? The Importance of Fasting Samples
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What is hypercalcemia? The importance of fasting samples.
The differentiation between primary or tertiary (both hypercalcemic) and secondary (normocalcemic) hyperparathyroidism requires the identification of hypercalcemia. Calcium in the blood exists as bound, complexed and ionized fractions. Calcium sensors on parathyroid cells interact only with the ionized fraction (about 50% of the total calcium concentration). Many formulas using albumin, total p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiorenal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-5502,1664-3828
DOI: 10.1159/000355526