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#170 Hypernatremia is Easy with Joel Topf MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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The Most Common Outpatient Cause of Hypercalcemia Is Primary Hyperparathyroidism

The most common outpatient cause of hypercalcemia is a primary hyperparathyroidism. The patient wasn't taken thumbs, no milk alkalized calcium carbonate in her history. She denies taking vitamin D. But additionally, we checked a 250HD and that was low. And she had a sarcoidosis, a seedology. So now she's not getting this nutritionally. This is not too much, you know, not a exogenous source. There's just a couple of diseases that cause that. Lymphoma can cause that. Any kind of the granulomatous diseases can cause it.

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