Endocrine Abstracts

PHP has four serious complications: urinary calcium stone disease; nephrocalcinosis; high-turnover metabolic bone disease; and hypercalcemia. Medical management is reserved for patients who are asymptomatic or who have failed, refused or are unfit for surgery. Aims of medical management are to prevent increase in severity of disease and to ameliorate and prevent the disease complications.Prevention of increase in severity includes regular follow-up, ensu...