Hypercalcemia in two patients with sarcoidosis and mycobacterium avium intracellulare not mediated by elevated vitamin D metabolites

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 342, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 336-340

  Shrayyef, Muhammad Z ^a,b,c   Depapp, Zsolt ^d   Cave, William T ^d   Wittlin, Steven D ^d  

^a MONCTON HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Granulomatous diseases; Hypercalcemia; Mycobacterial diseases; Mycobacterium avium; Sarcoidosis; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALLOPURINOL; AMIODARONE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CALCIUM; CARVEDILOL; CITRATE CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EMTRICITABINE; ERGOCALCIFEROL; ETHAMBUTOL; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PREDNISONE; TENOFOVIR; VALACICLOVIR; VITAMIN D; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEVER; GENITAL HERPES; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GOUT; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHARGY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; METABOLITE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; SARCOIDOSIS; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; VIRUS LOAD; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

EID: 80053379141     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31822224c3     Document Type: Article

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