Endocrine Abstracts

A 64-year-old woman who had been on Lithium 600 mg/day for 6 years for affective neurosis, presented in 2005 with acute confusion associated with a serum calcium concentration of 3.02 mmol/ which improved with rehydration. She was followed-up in outpatients and diagnosed with ‘Lithium-associated hypercalcaemia’ likely to be secondary to parathyroid hyperplasia. Results showed a corrected calcium of 2.74 mmol/l (2.1–2.55), phosphate 1.00 mmol/l (0.74–1.52), ...