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[2 dialysis cases which came to our clinic for the symptoms caused by hypercalcemia]
Jeongsoo Shin1, Masato Nishioka, Satoko Shinko
1Motomachi HD Clinic.
Abstract:
We'll report 2 dialysis cases which came to our clinic for the symptoms caused by hypercalcemia. Patients complained of sleeplessness, itching, headache, palpitation, apathy, akinesis, leanness, foot gangrene and so on. Hypercalcemia is one of the complication of vitamin D and calcium carbonate administration in chronic renal failure, though the frequency and risk are not clearly documented. Hypercalcemia aggravates the outcome of patients on dialysis and contributes to vascular calcification in long term. Recently various factors involving cardiovascular calcification are discussed, but first of all we must be very careful for the symptoms of hypercalcemia, and careful monitoring of plasma calcium concentration are recommended.
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