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Clinical case reports 5 (10): 1587-1590 (2017)
Making (mis) sense of asymptomatic marked hypercalcemia in pregnancy.
Giuseppe Maltese
,
Louise Izatt
,
Barbara M McGowan
,
Kashif Hafeez
,
Johnathan G Hubbard
,
Paul V Carroll
ABSTRACT
We describe a rare case of homozygous inactivating calcium-sensing receptor mutation detected during pregnancy and mimicking primary hyperparathyroidism. In pregnancy, the differential diagnosis of hypercalcaemia requires a cautious approach as physiological changes in calcium homeostasis may mask rare genetic conditions.