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Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia and pancreatitis: no causal link proven
B G Stuckey1, D H Gutteridge, G N Kent
1Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, W.A.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
A case of a patient with pancreatitis and familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia is presented and the literature linking FHH and pancreatitis is reviewed. The case for a causal link between the two conditions is not proven and seems unlikely. In view of this we strongly challenge the recommendation of total parathyroidectomy in such cases.