An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach

Acute worsening of hypercalcemia in patients with chronic primary hyperparathyroidism can be challenging, and availability bias may mislead physicians to diagnose worsening primary hyperparathyroidism, especially if the parathyroid hormone is also trending higher. We report a case of stage-IV non-Ho...

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Autores principales: Khan, Qalb, Rattray, Cameron, Masud, Avais, Patel, Mayurkumar, Ramchandani, Malvika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505117
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31202
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author Khan, Qalb
Rattray, Cameron
Masud, Avais
Patel, Mayurkumar
Ramchandani, Malvika
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description Acute worsening of hypercalcemia in patients with chronic primary hyperparathyroidism can be challenging, and availability bias may mislead physicians to diagnose worsening primary hyperparathyroidism, especially if the parathyroid hormone is also trending higher. We report a case of stage-IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma which presented as acute worsening of hypercalcemia in a patient with chronic primary hyperparathyroidism.
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spelling pubmed-97286252022-12-08 An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach Khan, Qalb Rattray, Cameron Masud, Avais Patel, Mayurkumar Ramchandani, Malvika Cureus Internal Medicine Acute worsening of hypercalcemia in patients with chronic primary hyperparathyroidism can be challenging, and availability bias may mislead physicians to diagnose worsening primary hyperparathyroidism, especially if the parathyroid hormone is also trending higher. We report a case of stage-IV non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma which presented as acute worsening of hypercalcemia in a patient with chronic primary hyperparathyroidism. Cureus 2022-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9728625/ /pubmed/36505117 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31202 Text en Copyright © 2022, Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Khan, Qalb
Rattray, Cameron
Masud, Avais
Patel, Mayurkumar
Ramchandani, Malvika
An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title_full An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title_fullStr An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title_full_unstemmed An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title_short An Exciting Case of Acute on Chronic Hypercalcemia in the Setting of Chronic Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Diagnostic Approach
title_sort exciting case of acute on chronic hypercalcemia in the setting of chronic primary hyperparathyroidism: a case report and diagnostic approach
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505117
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31202
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