Nonsurgical Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Farford, Bryan; Presutti, R. John; Moraghan, Thomas J.

doi:10.1016/s0025-6196(11)61031-8

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“…Similar strategies are also used in patients with mild hypercalcemia and those without complications from hyperparathyroidism. However, surgical intervention is the only recommended definitive treatment for primary hyperparathyroidism with manifestations [9,11,12]. Our case involves an uncommon, functional, large, cystic parathyroid mass, which accounts for 1-5% of neck masses.…”

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Hypercalcemic Crisis Due to a Giant Intrathyroidal Parathyroid Adenoma, with Postsurgical Severe Hypocalcemia and Hungry Bone Syndrome: A Case Report

Papanikos,

Papadodima,

Bantouna

et al. 2024

Clinics and Practice

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Background: Parathyroid adenoma is the most common cause of hypercalcemia and rarely leads to a hypercalcemic crisis, which is an unusual endocrine emergency that requires timely surgical excision. Case presentation: A 67-year-old male was admitted to the ER of the Euroclinic Hospital, Athens, Greece, because of elevated calcium levels and a palpable right-sided neck mass, which were accompanied by symptoms of nausea, drowsiness, and weakness for six months that increased prior to our evaluation. A gradual creatinine elevation and decreasing mental state were observed as well. The initial laboratory investigation identified severely elevated serum calcium (3.6 mmol/L) levels consistent with a hypercalcemic crisis (HC) and parathyroid hormone PTH (47.6 pmol/L) due to primary hyperparathyroidism. Neck ultrasonography (USG) identified a large, well-shaped cystic mass in the right thyroid lobe. With a serum calcium concentration of 19.5 mg/dL and a PTH of 225.3 pmol/L, the patient underwent partial parathyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy, which decreased serum calcium and PTH to 2.5 mmol/L and 1.93 pmol/L, respectively. Histology revealed a giant intrathyroidal cystic parathyroid adenoma, which was responsible for the hypercalcemic crisis. Postoperatively, the patient developed severe biochemical and clinical hypocalcemia, with calcium concentrations as low as 1.65 mmol/L, consistent with hungry bone syndrome (HBS), which was treated with high doses of intravenous calcium gluconate and oral alfacalcidol, and a slow recovery of serum calcium. After discharge, parathyroid function recovered, and symptomatology resolved entirely in more than one month. Discussion/conclusions: We present a case involving an exceptionally large intrathyroidal parathyroid adenoma that is characterized by clinical manifestations that mimic malignancy. The identification and treatment of such tumors is challenging and requires careful preoperative evaluation and postoperative care for the risk of hungry bone syndrome.

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Hypercalcemic Crisis Due to a Giant Intrathyroidal Parathyroid Adenoma, with Postsurgical Severe Hypocalcemia and Hungry Bone Syndrome: A Case Report

Papanikos,

Papadodima,

Bantouna

et al. 2024

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“…Medical therapy is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment option only in secondary hyperparathyroidism, while in PHPT, it offers little hope for long-term eucalcemia. Percutaneous alcohol ablation (PAA) of the parathyroid adenoma may represent an alternative therapeutic approach in a small number of cases of PHPT in which, due to other comorbidities, surgery carries a high risk associated with anesthesia and/or technical difficulties [2].…”

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