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Two Techniques to Create Hypoparathyroid Mice: Parathyroidectomy Using GFP Glands and Diphtheria-Toxin-Mediated Parathyroid Ablation
Published on: March 14, 2017
[Parathyroid function in recurrent calcium nephrolithiasis and chronic kidney failure before and after oral calcium
Abstract:
A case is presented of a female patient with recurrent calcium renal calculosis, chronic calculous pyelonephritis and chronic renal failure II degree to whom an oral calcium tolerance test was performed. The data of the test are characteristic for parathyroid hyperfunction. The possible cause of these changed is discussed. The conclusion is reached that the oral calcium tolerance test is of differential diagnostic value in patients with initial renal failure, too.
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