1. Hypercalcemia of advanced chronic liver disease: a forgotten clinical entity!
- Author
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Ambrish Mithal, Beena Bansal, Khalid Jamal Farooqui, Sunil Kumar Mishra, Jasjeet Singh Wasir, and Mohammad Shafi Kuchay
- Subjects
musculoskeletal diseases ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cirrhosis ,endocrine system diseases ,business.industry ,Materials Science (miscellaneous) ,nutritional and metabolic diseases ,Disease ,Chronic liver disease ,medicine.disease ,030226 pharmacology & pharmacy ,Diagnosis of exclusion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Original Article ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,In patient ,business ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists - Abstract
Hypercalcemia caused by advanced chronic liver disease (CLD) without hepatic neoplasia is uncommonly reported and poorly understood condition. We are reporting two cases of advanced CLD who developed hypercalcemia in the course of the disease. This diagnosis of exclusion was made only after meticulous ruling out of all causes of hypercalcemia. The unique feature of this type of hypercalcemia is its transient nature that may or may not require treatment. This clinical condition in patients with CLD should be kept in mind while evaluating the cause of hypercalcemia in them.
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- 2016