“…Thus, the clearance of calcium increases during the first few hours after parathyroidectomy in rats [213,214] and dogs [119] even as serum calcium begins to fall. Moreover, the fraction of filtered calcium excreted in the urine of humans with hypopara thyroidism is relatively high, and urinary calcium excretion is reduced by the administration of parathyroid extract in both humans and dogs [22,119,155,233], In patients with hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcemia, urinary cal cium often increases in association with the higher filtered load of this ion; however, for any given level of filtered calcium, the clearance of this ion is lower in patients with hyperparathyroidism than in those with other hypercalcemic disorders [119,218], Although the acute administration of parathy roid extract in humans and experimental animals has generally been found to cause an absolute decrease in urinary calcium or in calcium clearance [19,22,69,71,119,233], others [82,184,214] observed either an increase or no change in urinary calcium. These variable results may be related to an increase in plasma calcium, a rise in GFR, or augmented sodium excretion, all of which may follow the administration of parathyroid extract.…”