Hypercalcemia has a variety of potential causes with most common been primary hyperparathyroidism and malignancy accounting 90% cases. Other less hypercalcemia such as superimposed pseudohypercalcemia in the presence increased serum total calcium concentration but normal ionized level. We report evaluation for known history monoclonal gammopathy. case 71-year-old Caucasian male interstitial lun...

Objective To report a case of severe hypercalcemia secondary to primary hyperparathyroidism in a late-preterm pregnant patient and review medical and surgical treatments as well as obstetric and neonatal outcomes. Background Diagnosis of parathyroid disease during pregnancy can be difficult due to nonspecific presentation. Management decisions are complex and require multidisciplinary collabo...

OBJECTIVE To examine an individualized approach to patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in an effort to identify factors that would differentiate patients who can be treated with radioguided parathyroidectomy (RP) from those that require more extensive parathyroid exploration (PE) using intraoperative parathyroid hormone (IOPTH) measurement and to compare rates of recurrent and pers...

Calcitriol-mediated hypercalcemia has been reported in malignant lymphomas and granulomatous diseases but not in lung carcinoma. We describe a patient with squamous cell lung carcinoma with hypercalcemia and elevated calcitriol levels. A 60-year-old Caucasian male patient with stage IIIB squamous cell lung cancer developed hypercalcemia at 14.8 mg/dL two years after receiving chemotherapy and r...

Hypercalcemia is defined as a total serum calcium level greater than 10.5 mg/dL and is often divided into categories to describe the severity of symptoms as mild (10.5 to 11.9 mg/ dL), moderate (12 to 13.9 mg/dL), and severe (>14 mg/dL). The prevalence of hypercalcemia is approximately 0.5% to 3% in hospitalized adults. Hyperparathyroidism is the most common cause of hypercalcemia, and the inci...