[Parathyroidectomy may also be appropriate in disorders with generalized resistance to Ca2+o owing to inactivating CaR mutations in the following special circumstances: in selected families with FHH in which there is unusually severe hypercalcemia, frankly elevated PTH levels, or atypical features such as hypercalciuria; in cases of NSHPT with severe hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism; and in the occasional mild case of homozygous FHH owing to CaR mutations that confer mild-to-moderate resistance to Ca2+o that escapes clinical detection in the neonatal period.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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