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SECRETION OF PARATHYROID HORMONE IN PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM
Author(s) -
O'RIORDAN J. L. H.,
WATSON L.,
WOODHEAD J. S.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
clinical endocrinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1365-2265
pISSN - 0300-0664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2265.1972.tb00386.x
Subject(s) - parathyroid hormone , osteitis , primary hyperparathyroidism , medicine , osteitis fibrosa cystica , endocrinology , hyperparathyroidism , hormone , surgery , calcium , osteomyelitis
SUMMARY Circulating parathyroid hormone was assayed in sixty‐nine patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. The patients were divided into two groups, those with radiological evidence of osteitis fibrosa (twenty patients) and those without such evidence. In this latter group the mean concentration of circulating parathyroid hormone was higher than the mean in a group of normal subjects, but there was great overlap with the normal range, limiting the diagnostic value of the assay in such cases. Much higher concentrations were found in the patients with osteitis fibrosa: all nine patients with concentrations of parathyroid hormone above 3 ng/ml had osteitis fibrosa.