Endocrine Abstracts

An 22-year-old patient with a history of homozygous sickle cell disease (complicated by multiple vaso-occlusive attacks) was referred to the endocrinologist for persistent hypercalcemia for more than one year (between 2.63 and 2.82 mmol/l, N: 2.15–2.50 mmol/l), associated with hypophosphoremia (0.71 mmol/l, N: 0.75–1.39 mmol/l) and elevation of parathyroid hormone (170 ng/l, N <49 ng/l). Cervical ultrasound did not show parathyroid adenoma, but parathyroid MIBI s...