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Malignant osteopetrosis: hypercalcaemia after bone marrow transplantation
P S Rawlinson1, R H Green, A M Coggins
1Department of Haematology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 3 year old girl presented with malignant osteopetrosis, which was treated by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Successful engraftment was complicated by prolonged hypercalcaemia, which was controlled by a combination of a bisphosphonate, phosphate infusions, vigorous resalination, and salmon calcitonin. She was alive and well 16 months after the transplant.