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Elliott M. Antman, MD; John P. Bilezikian, MD
College of Physicians and Surgeons New York

JAMA. 1977;237(20):2186-2187.

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To the Editor.—

The widespread use of multichannel screening tests has been responsible for identifying an increasingly large group of patients with mild hypercalcemia and no symptoms. These patients often present a therapeutic problem, because it is not known in which ones progressive disease will develop and in ones there will be no symptoms. Kosinski and colleagues (236:590, 1976) have recently described 31 years of welldocumented primary hyperparathyroidism in a patient who remained asymptomatic during this period. Other isolated reports have confirmed that there appears to be a subset of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism whose natural history is not associated with progressive targetorgan dysfunction.

In contrast, we recently cared for a patient whose case illustrates that long-standing primary hyperparathyroidism may be progressive although she was asymptomatic for more than three decades.

Report of a Case.—

A female patient was admitted to the Stamford Hospital on three separate occasions in 1943 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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