Endocrine Abstracts

A 77-year-old lady presented with reduced conscious state, dysphasia and profound confusion on a background of behavioural change and anorexia over the previous 10 days. She was previously independent with history of hypertension controlled on atenolol (100 mg). She was significantly hypertensive 200/100. Her serum calcium was elevated at 4.01 mmol/l (2.05–2.60). The serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) was also significantly elevated at 26 pmol/l (0.5–6.4) consistent wit...