We conducted a retrospective study on 239 patients operated on for primary hyperparathyroidism in our surgical department between May 2003 and December 2012. 202 patients were female and 37 were male, ...

Measurements of circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) can be highly variable depending upon the assay used, but the standardization of blood sample handling might help to reduce this variability. To ...

Renal Stone Removal Helps Some Patients With Recurrent UTIs In a study, intact parathyroid hormone levels fell by nearly 10% over 6 months in hemodialysis patients who received intensive treatment for ...

The researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 case-control studies of patients with NAFLD/NASH and a comparison group without NAFLD/NASH. All studies had data on mean PTH ...

Blanket routine calcium supplementation after thyroidectomy was no more effective than selective, parathyroid hormone (PTH)-guided therapy for preventing hypocalcemia in a randomized trial. The ...

A pair of clinical guidelines on hypo- and hyperparathyroidism, respectively, had a coming-out party at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research's (ASBMR) annual meeting on Sunday, allowing ...

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 ...

Strict management of secondary hyperparathyroidism may be necessary to improve prognosis in patients on dialysis who have coronary artery disease requiring percutaneous coronary intervention. High ...

Hypoparathyroidism happens when the parathyroid glands don’t make enough parathyroid hormone (PTH). This causes low calcium and high phosphorus levels that need lifelong monitoring. Low calcium can ...