Endocrine Abstracts

Hypoparathyroidism is, in Italy, an orphan disease because the hormonal replacement therapy is possible only with teriparatide (fragment 1–34 of of human parathyroid hormone). Otherwise the patients use oral calcium and calcitriol. This scheme of therapy obtained correct plasmatic calcium and phosphate levels, correct urinary excretion of calcium and phosphate, adequate quality of life – QoL only in a little percentage of patients. Especially kidney stones, intra-ren...

Background: The normocalcaemic hyperparathyroidism (NHPT) has been defined as a condition with persistently normal total and ionized calcium levels in the presence of high levels of PTH. The clinical aspects of NHPT have been evaluated in different cohorts but the interpretation of these findings is confounded by differing methods used to rule out secondary hyperparathyroidism and by the small number of NHPT subjects enrolled. Up to now, there is no information available that ...