raise concern. Such benign disorders, such as parathyroid cyst, are not discussed here. Parathyroid diseases can be divided into those causing hyperparathyroidism...
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Parathyroid hormone (PTH), also called parathormone or parathyrin, is a peptide hormone secreted by the parathyroid glands that regulates the serum calcium...
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Parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands in the neck of humans and other tetrapods. Humans usually have four parathyroid glands, located on the back...
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Hypoparathyroidism (redirect from Congenital absence of parathyroid)
symptoms. It is a very rare disease. The condition can be inherited, but it is also encountered after thyroid or parathyroid gland surgery, and it can be...
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A parathyroid adenoma is a benign tumor of the parathyroid gland. It generally causes hyperparathyroidism; there are very few reports of parathyroid adenomas...
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cancer. Imaging is not as reliable in patients with multiglandular parathyroid disease. In addition, size limitation of the abnormal gland can limit the...
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Hyperparathyroidism (category Parathyroid disorders)
Hyperparathyroidism is an increase in parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels in the blood. This occurs from a disorder either within the parathyroid glands (primary hyperparathyroidism)...
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Osteitis fibrosa cystica (redirect from Von Recklinghausen's disease of bone)
OFC on bone are largely dependent on the duration of the disease and the level of parathyroid hormone (PTH) produced. PTH is responsible for maintaining...
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Parathyroid chief cells (also called parathyroid principal cells or simply parathyroid cells) are one of the two cell types of the parathyroid glands,...
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PMID 17127142. Tahim, AS; Saunders, J; Sinha, P (2010). "A parathyroid adenoma: benign disease presenting with hyperparathyroid crisis". Case Reports in...
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and/or injury during thyroid surgery.[citation needed] The parathyroid glands produce parathyroid hormone (PTH), a hormone needed to maintain adequate amounts...
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Primary hyperparathyroidism (category Parathyroid disorders)
is a medical condition where the parathyroid gland (or a benign tumor within it) produce excess amounts of parathyroid hormone (PTH). The symptoms of the...
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pheochromocytoma: one with parathyroid disease and a normal appearance (MEN 2A) and the other without parathyroid disease but with mucosal neuromas and...
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Graves' disease, also known as toxic diffuse goiter or Basedow’s disease, is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid. It frequently results in and...
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Hypercalcaemia (section Parathyroid function)
Kidney Disease. CRC Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-4398-4950-7. Stack BC Jr, Bodenner DL (2016). Medical and Surgical Treatment of Parathyroid Diseases: An Evidence-Based...
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Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cancer resulting in parathyroid adenoma to carcinoma progression. It forms in tissues of one or more of the parathyroid...
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reuptake inhibitors Endocrine/metabolic disease Pregnancy Uremia Ketoacidosis Thyroid and parathyroid disease Adrenal insufficiency Toxins Liver failure...
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parathyroid disease and other roles related to tissues and organs in the body. 1993, Brown et al. isolated a clone named BoPCaR (bovine parathyroid calcium...
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Recombinant human parathyroid hormone, sold under the brand name Preotact among others, is an artificially manufactured form of the parathyroid hormone used...
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Endocrine system (redirect from Diseases of the endocrine system)
endocrine systems. In humans, the major endocrine glands are the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, pineal, and adrenal glands, and the (male) testis and (female)...
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four parathyroid glands. This procedure is used to remove an adenoma or hyperplasia of these glands when they are producing excessive parathyroid hormone...
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Tertiary hyperparathyroidism (category Parathyroid disorders)
involving the overproduction of the hormone, parathyroid hormone, produced by the parathyroid glands. The parathyroid glands are involved in monitoring and regulating...
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Secondary hyperparathyroidism (category Parathyroid disorders)
hyperparathyroidism is the medical condition of excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH) by the parathyroid glands in response to hypocalcemia (low blood calcium...
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fast or slow heart beat). Hormones: hypoparathyroidism (failure of the parathyroid glands leading to low calcium levels), panhypopituitarism (leading to...
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phosphate, and parathyroid hormone.[citation needed] Kidney ultrasonography is useful for diagnostic and prognostic purposes in chronic kidney disease. Whether...
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include: nausea and vomiting, hypocalcemia, and adynamic bone disease if intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) levels drop below 100pg/mL. "Definition of calcimimetic"...
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level (hypocalcemia) and increased parathyroid hormone is released from the parathyroid gland. Chronic kidney disease leads to hyperparathyroidism in 84%...
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malignant (cancer). They generally occur in endocrine organs (e.g. thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenals), but may also occur in endocrine tissues of organs not...
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treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma. Also used for thyroid and parathyroid disease. Instead of removing unwanted tissue surgically it is killed with...
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Sarcoidosis (redirect from Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease)
the root of the lung on both sides, high blood calcium with a normal parathyroid hormone level, or elevated levels of angiotensin-converting enzyme in...
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