Endocrine Abstracts

It is to delineate two categories of hypercalcemia: hypercalcemia associated with dysfunction of the parathyroid gland and hypercalcemia that occurs despite appropriate parathyroid suppression.There is casuistic model of 73 years old woman with several years personal history of hypercalcemia and clinical polyarthritis. After standard examinations there was diagnosed primary hyperparathyroidism. USG screening expected adenoma of parathyroid gland right do...

Background: Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is nowadays an asymptomatic disease characterized by mild hypercalcemia and elevated parathormone (PTH) levels. PHPT is caused by parathyroid adenoma in 80–85% of patiens, up to 20% are located ectopically and therefore an ultrasound investigation is not helpful. SPECT sestamibi or tetrofosmin scintigraphy of the neck and thorax is considered to be the optimal method for the evaluation of ectopic parathyroid adenoma.<p cl...