Hypercalcemia in disseminated coccidioidomycosis: Expression of parathyroid hormone-related peptide is characteristic of granulomatous inflammation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Fierer, Joshua ^a,b,c   Burton, Douglas W ^b   Haghighi, Parviz ^a,c   Deftos, Leonard J ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CREATININE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUROSEMIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PAMIDRONIC ACID; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; POSACONAZOLE; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; DISSEMINATED COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEVER; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN; SERUM;

EID: 84866055993     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis536     Document Type: Article

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