Secondary hyperparathyroidism commonly develops in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in response to high phosphate, low calcium and low 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 (calcitriol ...

Secondary hyperparathyroidism is a complex endocrine condition characterized by excess circulating parathyroid hormone (PTH) resulting from an underlying condition, most commonly chronic kidney ...

However, despite suggestions that such secondarily stimulated hyperparathyroidism may become autonomous 12–14 convincing data regarding such a possibility are not available, owing to the great ...

PARATHYROID hyperplasia is a well recognized accompaniment of chronic renal failure. Occasionally, a clinical state of secondary hyperparathyroidism manifested by osteitis fibrosa and metastatic ...

We extend our discussion to encompass other indications for calcimimetics—secondary hyperparathyroidism in predialysis chronic kidney disease patients, hypercalcemic hyperparathyroidism in renal ...

We searched Medline and PubMed databases for articles published between 1993 and June 2005 using the following keywords: "calcimimetic" and "secondary hyperparathyroidism", "dialysis", "renal ...

One family has overt hypercalciuria, kidney stones, and hyperparathyroidism. 46 Other families were initially diagnosed with familial primary hyperparathyroidism, but turned out to have ...