New Hope for Treating Dangerously High Calcium Before Surgery
When the parathyroid glands go haywire, calcium levels in the blood can spike to dangerous levels—a medical emergency. Doctors need to stabilize patients …
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Understanding Vitamin D and Parathyroid Surgery Complications
This research note corrects important information about a case where a patient had complications after parathyroid surgery. The original study looked at how …
Read MoreWhy Some People Still Have High Hormone Levels After Parathyroid Surgery
Doctors sometimes remove the parathyroid gland to treat a condition called hyperparathyroidism, which affects hormone balance in the body. However, new …
Read MoreSurgery May Help Kidney Patients Live Longer and Healthier
Researchers studied two ways to treat a serious condition that affects people with kidney disease. Some patients had surgery to remove problematic glands, …
Read MoreSurgery vs. Medicine: Which Helps Kidney Transplants Last Longer?
When people receive a kidney transplant, their parathyroid glands (small glands that control calcium levels) sometimes go haywire and produce too much hormone. …
Read MoreVitamin D Levels Help Prevent Low Calcium After Thyroid Surgery
Researchers combined results from eight studies involving over 4,000 patients to understand how vitamin D affects calcium levels after parathyroid surgery. …
Read MoreSurgery Alone May Not Fix Kidney Calcium Problems
Doctors sometimes remove the parathyroid glands to treat a serious condition called uremic tumoral calcinosis, which causes calcium to build up in the bodies …
Read MoreFixing Weak Bones After Parathyroid Surgery Works Better for Some
Researchers looked at 93 patients who had surgery to remove overactive parathyroid glands—small glands in the neck that control calcium levels. They wanted to …
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