Article Text
Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Acute kidney injury associated with hypercalcaemic crisis in a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism
Summary
Parathyroid or hypercalcaemic crisis is a rare presenting manifestation of primary hyperparathyroidism and usually seen in relation to parathyroid carcinoma and multiple myeloma. We present a middle-aged woman with extreme hypercalcaemia due to parathyroid adenoma presenting as acute kidney injury. This case highlights the need to consider primary hyperparathyroidism in differentials of a patient presenting with severe hypercalcaemia and renal dysfunction. Also this is the second reported case in literature of a patient surviving such extreme hypercalcaemia due to parathyroid adenoma.
- endocrine system
- renal system
- calcium and bone
- acute renal failure