Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis

Severe hypercalcemia is uncommon in clinical practice and is usually due to primary hperparathyroidism or malignancy. We present a patient who presented with severe hypercalcemia with renal failure; further evaluation of which revealed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. This case is presented in view of...

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Autor principal: Nayak-Rao, S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049278
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.116325
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description Severe hypercalcemia is uncommon in clinical practice and is usually due to primary hperparathyroidism or malignancy. We present a patient who presented with severe hypercalcemia with renal failure; further evaluation of which revealed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. This case is presented in view of the rarity of presentation of sarcoidosis with hypercalcemic crisis.
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spelling pubmed-37647162013-09-18 Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis Nayak-Rao, S Indian J Nephrol Case Report Severe hypercalcemia is uncommon in clinical practice and is usually due to primary hperparathyroidism or malignancy. We present a patient who presented with severe hypercalcemia with renal failure; further evaluation of which revealed the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. This case is presented in view of the rarity of presentation of sarcoidosis with hypercalcemic crisis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3764716/ /pubmed/24049278 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.116325 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis
title_full Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis
title_fullStr Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis
title_full_unstemmed Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis
title_short Severe hypercalcemia unmasked by Vitamin D in a patient with sarcoidosis
title_sort severe hypercalcemia unmasked by vitamin d in a patient with sarcoidosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049278
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