Credit: Getty Images Hemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism have higher rates of mortality, readmission, and reoperation than those with primary hyperparathyroidism, so ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that patients with primary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the study, 67% of patients receiving upacicalcet achieved target parathyroid hormone concentrations. Overall, ...

SECONDARY hyperparathyroidism associated with chronic renal disease may simulate primary hyper-parathyroidism with secondary renal impairment in virtually every particular. An exception is the brown ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pregnancy rates did not differ between women with primary hyperparathyroidism and healthy controls. There were ...

Classical primary hyperparathyroidism—a disease of 'bones, stones, and psychic groans'—is a rarity in the US, although it is still seen in some parts of the world. Today, most patients with primary ...

Your parathyroid glands are four tiny glands located at the four corners of your thyroid gland. They are about the size of a pea and produce hormones to regulate the calcium levels in your blood and ...

When it comes to identifying primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT), choline positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) may be the way to go. In a meta-analysis of 119 comparative ...

In the hormonal disorder primary hyperparathyroidism, patients' risk of hip fracture is elevated by 51%, and that of heart attack or stroke 45%. These are results from a major study from the ...

First-degree relatives of patients with PHPT face a markedly elevated risk of developing the condition, particularly when the index patient was aged 40 years or younger at diagnosis.

THIS report concerns 2 male sibs with hypercalcemia caused by neonatal familial primary hyperparathyroidism. In the literature there are only a few reports of familial hyperparathyroidism. 1,2 These ...