Sodium Sulfate Treatment of Hypercalcemia

HYPERCALCEMIA is a clinical finding that is usually controlled by relatively simple procedures but occasionally presents an acute medical emergency. It occurs in a wide variety of disorders such as hyperparathyroidism, carcinoma with or without bony metastasis, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, vitamin D intoxication, milk-alkali syndrome, hyperthyroidism, idiopathic hypercalcemia of infancy and, rarely, acute adrenal insuificency.1 , 2 Symptoms vary, depending upon the primary disease producing the hypercalcemia and on the degree of elevation of serum calcium. Hypercalcemia may threaten life, and if the serum calcium concentration is not lowered, the patient may die. This syndrome, which has been called "hypercalcemic crisis," . . .