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Category Archives: Electrolytes

Hypercalcemia

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Site Staff

Simple steps to work up hypercalcemia:

  • If PTHi high then follow work up for Hyperpaprathyroidism
  • If PTHi normal then order
    24 hour urine calcium and creatinine (Fractional excretion of Calcium)
    PTHrP
    TSH
    SPEP, UPEP, Serum light chains
    25-hydroxy Vitamin D
    1,25 hydroxy Vitamin D (consider lymphoma, sarcoid, TB)
  • Other rare cause
    Vitamin A
    Thyroid

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