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Primary hyperparathyroidism unmasked by donor nephrectomy
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|February 1, 1983
Abstract:
A patient who was normocalcaemic before donation of a kidney to her son developed hypercalcaemia in the immediate postoperative period, which was subsequently found to be due to a parathyroid adenoma. It is assumed that the hypercalcaemia was unmasked by the reduction in glomerular filtration rate following the nephrectomy.