Cognitive decline due to ectopic primary hyperparathyroidism

Yoshito Nishimura; Akira Yamamoto; Masahiro Takahara; Fumio Otsuka

doi:10.1002/ccr3.1901

Cognitive decline due to ectopic primary hyperparathyroidism

Clin Case Rep. 2018 Nov 5;6(12):2513-2514. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1901. eCollection 2018 Dec.

Authors

Yoshito Nishimura¹, Akira Yamamoto¹, Masahiro Takahara¹, Fumio Otsuka¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of General Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine Okayama Japan.

Abstract

When you see a patient with cognitive dysfunction, hypercalcemia due to hyperparathyroidism is an important differential diagnosis. It is important to consider including chest computed tomography and ¹³¹I-MIBI SPECT examinations in patients with possible hyperparathyroidism and normal thyroid ultrasound.

Keywords: 131I‐MIBI; ectopic parathyroid adenoma; hypercalcemia; hyperparathyroidism.