Excessive calcium in the blood, known as hypercalcemia, can disrupt the heart’s electrical system, potentially leading to an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia. Hypercalcemia is more likely to cause a ...

New research attempts to answer some of the mystery related to the causes and impact of hypercalcemia in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Hypercalcemia is caused by many factors in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new clinical practice guideline from the Endocrine Society recommends treatment with IV bisphosphonates or ...

Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is the most common metabolic complication seen in patients with cancer, and is associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. It affects an estimated 2%–30 ...

Calcium is an important nutrient that your body needs to grow strong bones and keep you healthy. High blood calcium often does not cause any symptoms. But over time, very high calcium levels can cause ...

If your doctor tells you that you have hypercalcemia, it means you have too much calcium in your blood. The possible causes of high calcium levels include more than 25 diseases, as well as some ...

The authors used Ovid Medline to search for human trials on hypercalcemia and furosemide from 1950 to April 2008, and articles related to bisphosphonates and hypercalcemia during the same period.

Hypercalcemia is most common in those who have later-stage malignancies and predicts a poor prognosis for those with it. The most common causes include humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy mediated by ...

Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia: It is a condition which is hereditary and runs in families and is characterized by 3 things – hypercalcemia (S.Ca >10.2 mg/dl), hypocalciuria (Ca excretion rate 0 ...

A 48-year-old woman was given a diagnosis of infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma (T2N1M0; grade I; positive for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors and human epidermal receptor-2 [HER2] status ...