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#170 Hypernatremia is Easy with Joel Topf MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is 125-Vitamin D a Treatment for Hypercalcemia?

Yurik Yurik was admitted to the hospital with hypercalcemia. She had been waking up every two or three hours for a few days because of intense thirst. Doctors put her on prednisone and she went home, still complaining of polyurea and polydipsia. Two weeks later they brought her back; this time it wasn't the exact same problem. They were trying to figure out what's going on in her brain. Dr. Toph Cash: "This is first night I've been able to sleep through the night in weeks"

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