Abstract Background: Primary hyperparathyroidism is autonomous production of parathyroid hormone. After removal of adenoma, one of the surgeons concern is postoperative hypocalcaemia. There is no precise method to determine if patients have hypocalcaemia postoperatively. The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between parathyroid adenoma weights, postoperative serum calcium and...

Primary Hyperparathyroidism is a condition in which parathyroid gland secrets high levels of Parathyroid hormone and loses the ability to regulate Parathyroid hormone secretion via a negative feedback mechanism with serum calcium level (Geffken 1998). This hormone increases serum calcium by increasing bone resorption, intestinal absorption and decreasing renal excretion resulting in vicious cyc...

Experimental and clinical data suggest an association between chronic hyperparathyroidism and hypertension, but acute infusion of parathyroid hormone causes vasodilation and hypotension. These observations imply that chronic and acute parathyroid states affect blood pressure through different mechanism(s), either by modification of vascular receptors or by an ionophoretic effect of parathyroid ...

THE stimulation of bone resorption by parathyroid hormone can be quantitated in tissue cultures of embryonic bone [20], using paired limb bones from a single embryo in which radioactive calcium (45Ca) has previously been incorporated. The ratio of 45Ca release from the parathyroid hormonetreated bones to that from the control bones is a sensitive measure of parathyroid effect. This technique ha...

Experimental and clinical data suggest an association between chronic hyperparathyroidism and hypertension, but acute infusion of parathyroid hormone causes vasodilation and hypotension. These observations imply that chronic and acute parathyroid states affect blood pressure through different mechanism(s), either by modification of vascular receptors or by an ionophoretic effect of parathyroid ...

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and immunoreactive parathyroid hormone concentrations were measured in normal elderly subjects living at home and in sick elderly patients in hospital. Normal old people tended to have high 25-hydroxyvitamin D and low parathyroid hormone concentrations; in the sick elderly this pattern was reversed. The raised serum parathyroid hormone concentrations in the sick elderl...

OBJECTIVE To see whether parathyroid hormone related protein has a humoral role in breast cancer. DESIGN Plasma concentrations and tumour expression of parathyroid hormone related protein were determined (by two site immunoradiometric assay and immunohistochemistry respectively) in women with breast cancer and related to the presence of bone metastases and serum calcium concentrations. SUBJ...

Background: The role of high levels of parathyroid hormone in the development of anemia either directly or by mediating mechanisms is unclear, and there is a controversy about the pathophysiological role of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the development and intensification of anemia associated with renal disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between anemia and parathy...

In mammals, PTH is a component in a complex signaling system involving three structurally related ligands and two G protein-coupled receptors, which share significant amino acid sequence homology (Fig. 1). PTH is a peptide hormone comprising 84 amino acids that is made by the parathyroid glands (and to a much smaller extend by the thymus) and acts through the PTH/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) rec...