Investigating patients with normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism: When is a parathyroid scintigraphy indicated?

In clinical practice, physicians often encounter patients with persistent elevated serum parathyroid hormone levels and normal serum calcium levels, a state known as normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism (NHPT). The investigation of NHPT cases can lead to unnecessary use of parathyroid scintigraphy (PS)...

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Autores principales: Mazokopakis, Elias E., Skarakis, Spyridon-Nikitas I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516364
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_61_18
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description In clinical practice, physicians often encounter patients with persistent elevated serum parathyroid hormone levels and normal serum calcium levels, a state known as normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism (NHPT). The investigation of NHPT cases can lead to unnecessary use of parathyroid scintigraphy (PS) and consequently unnecessary health-care costs. In this clinical review, the most common causes of NHPT and the possible indications for PS performance in such cases are mainly presented and discussed.
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spelling pubmed-67141572019-09-12 Investigating patients with normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism: When is a parathyroid scintigraphy indicated? Mazokopakis, Elias E. Skarakis, Spyridon-Nikitas I. World J Nucl Med Review Article In clinical practice, physicians often encounter patients with persistent elevated serum parathyroid hormone levels and normal serum calcium levels, a state known as normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism (NHPT). The investigation of NHPT cases can lead to unnecessary use of parathyroid scintigraphy (PS) and consequently unnecessary health-care costs. In this clinical review, the most common causes of NHPT and the possible indications for PS performance in such cases are mainly presented and discussed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6714157/ /pubmed/31516364 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_61_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714157/
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