The management of severe hypercalcaemia.

Severe Infantile Hypercalcaemia

In 1932 Lightwood described a child aged 2 years whose illness resembled the terminal stages of severe infantile hypercalcaemia. Later Butler (1951) and Fanconi (1951) each reported similar cases and they then discussed their findings in ajoint paper (Fanconi, Girardet, Schlesinger, Butler and Black, 1952). Since then there have been several reports of the severe form of this disease in this co...

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MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE HYPERKALEMIA

The diagnosis and management of hypercalcaemia.

INTRODUCTION Hypercalcaemia is a relatively common clinical problem with a wide spectrum of presentations. This review provides an overview of the diagnosis and management of hypercalcaemia, and recent developments in drug therapy. METHODS A non-systematic review of the English-language literature on various aspects in the management of hypercalcaemia was conducted. RESULTS Increasingly, mo...

Immobilization hypercalcaemia with severe bone mineral loss and hypogonadism.

Moderate hypercalcaemia occurred in a 17-year-old male who was immobilized with abdominal and right hip sepsis for 9 months after a motor vehicle accident. The hypercalcaemia was due to bone resorption, with a urine hydroxyproline:creatinine ratio of 0.203 (normal less than 0.017) and a urine calcium loss of 22.9 mmol/24 hr, associated with impaired renal function. There was radiological eviden...