Primary hyperparathyroidism

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Diagnosis

The serum chloride phosphate ratio is high (33 or more) in most patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. [1][2][3] However, thiazide medications have been reported to causes ratios above 33.[4]

Treatment

Surgery

A consensus statement in 2002 recommended the following indications for surgery[5]:

  • Serum calcium (above upper limit of normal): 1.0 mg/dl
  • 24-h urinary calcium >400 mg
  • Creatinine clearance reduced by 30% compared with age-matched subjects.
  • Bone mineral density t-score <-2.5 at any site
  • Age <50

More recently, a randomized controlled trial reported that surgery showed increase in bone mass, but no improvement in quality of life after one to two years among patients with[6]:

  • Untreated, asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Serum calcium between 2.60 - 2.85 mmol/liter (10.4 - 11.4 mg/dl)
  • Age between 50 and 80 yr
  • No medications interfering with Ca metabolism
  • No hyperparathyroid bone disease
  • No previous operation in the neck
  • Creatinine level < 130 µmol/liter (<1.47 mg/dl)

References

  1. Reeves CD, Palmer F, Bacchus H, Longerbeam JK (1975). "Differential diagnosis of hypercalcemia by the chloride/phosphate ratio". Am. J. Surg. 130 (2): 166-71. PMID 1155729[e]

    This study found a ratio above 33 to have a sensitivity of 94% and a specificity of 96%.

  2. Palmer FJ, Nelson JC, Bacchus H (1974). "The chloride-phosphate ratio in hypercalcemia". Ann. Intern. Med. 80 (2): 200-4. PMID 4405880[e]
  3. Broulík PD, Pacovský V (1979). "The chloride phosphate ratio as the screening test for primary hyperparathyroidism". Horm. Metab. Res. 11 (10): 577-9. PMID 521012[e]

    This study found a ratio above 33 to have a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 100%.

  4. Lawler FH, Janssen HP (1983). "Chloride:phosphate ratio with hypercalcemia secondary to thiazide administration". The Journal of family practice 16 (1): 153-4. PMID 6848626[e]
  5. Bilezikian JP, Potts JT, Fuleihan Gel-H, et al (2002). "Summary statement from a workshop on asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: a perspective for the 21st century". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 87 (12): 5353-61. PMID 12466320[e]
  6. Bollerslev J, Jansson S, Mollerup CL, et al (2007). "Medical observation, compared with parathyroidectomy, for asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized trial". J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 92 (5): 1687-92. DOI:10.1210/jc.2006-1836. PMID 17284629. Research Blogging.
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