primary hyperparathyroidism and pancreatitis: an uncommon cause of pancreatitis

Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Pancreatitis: an Uncommon Cause of Pancreatitis

Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis: A Diagnostic Clue to Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Pancreatitis in primary hyperparathyroidism.

The cause and effect relationship between acute pancreatitis and primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) still evokes controversy. Our paper reviews the debate in the medical literature. In this controversy we add a case of a 49-year old non-alcoholic man presenting with recurrent attacks of acute pancreatitis. His raised serum calcium was realized rather late. Eventually, high intact parathyroid ho...

Primary hyperparathyroidism and acute pancreatitis

patients with amultinodular thyroid gland, autonomous nodules, or latent Graves-Basedow disease due to increased thyroid hormone production and release. Its incidence is 1.7%. Areas with adequate iodine intake have a low incidence of hyperthyroidism induced by excess iodine intake. Euthyroid patients with some prior episode of postpartum thyroiditis, type 2 amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis, or...

Primary hyperparathyroidism and chronic pancreatitis.

To the Editor, We read with interest the article by Bhadada et al. from Chandigarh published OnlineEarly in your journal. The article rekindles interest in the association between primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and pancreatitis. Although recent publications on primary hyperparathyroidism tend to downplay this association, Pyrah and Hodgkinson attempted to classify the circumstances in which...

An Enlarging Cystic Thyroid Mass: Uncommon Cause of Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Parathyroid cysts are quite rare and often mistaken for thyroid cysts. They are mostly nonfunctioning; functioning parathyroid cysts are an extremely rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism. We present a 64 year-old man that presented with what is initially diagnosed as an enlarging symptomatic thyroid cyst and treated with suppressive thyroid hormone therapy. After our review, primary hyperp...