Measuring Total Blood Calcium Displays a Low Sensitivity for the Diagnosis of Hypercalcemia in Incident Renal Transplant Recipients | Zendy

Pieter Evenepoel | Zendy; Bert Bammens | Zendy; Kathleen Claes | Zendy; Dirk Kuypers | Zendy; Björn Meijers | Zendy; Yves Vanrenterghem | Zendy

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Measuring Total Blood Calcium Displays a Low Sensitivity for the Diagnosis of Hypercalcemia in Incident Renal Transplant Recipients

Author(s) -

Pieter Evenepoel,

Bert Bammens,

Kathleen Claes,

Dirk Kuypers,

Björn Meijers,

Yves Vanrenterghem

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.02460310

Subject(s) - medicine , nephrocalcinosis , metabolic acidosis , transplantation , calcium , bicarbonate , metabolic disorder , gastroenterology , complication , confidence interval , calcium metabolism , acidosis , hemodialysis , urology , kidney

Hypercalcemia is a common complication in renal transplant recipients and has been associated with nephrocalcinosis and poor graft outcome. The performance of total calcium (tCa) in the diagnosis of blood calcium disturbances in renal transplant recipients is unknown.

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