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ReviewJournal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA2012

Primary hyperparathyroidism in children and adolescents.

Jeffrey Roizen, Michael A Levine

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Review in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeffrey RoizenDivision of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Michael A Levine
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Career Development Program in Pediatric Diabetes Research (K12) at CHOPK12DK094723 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI WILLI, STEVEN M · 2011 to 2020
$3.6M
The Role of GCM2 in Parathyroid Gland HomeostasisR01DK079970 · NIDDK · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI LEVINE, MICHAEL A. · 2009 to 2015
$3.2M
NIDDK NIH HHS K12 DK094723NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK079970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is a common endocrine disorder in adults in whom the typical presentation is incidentally discovered as asymptomatic hypercalcemia. PHPT is much less common in children and adolescents, but has greater morbidity in this age group, as most young patients with PHPT will have symptomatic hypercalcemia or complications such as kidney stones, abdominal pain, and skeletal fragility. An important feature of PHPT in younger patients is the relatively high prevalence of germline inactivating mutations of the CASR gene, which encodes the calcium-sensing receptor. Biallelic CASR mutations cause neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism, a life-threatening condition that presents within days of life with marked hypercalcemia, respiratory distress, failure to thrive, and skeletal demineralization. By contrast, more common heterozygous CASR mutations are generally associated with a benign variant of PHPT termed familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia. Appropriate management of PHPT in children and adolescents requires distinction between familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, which generally requires no specific treatment, and other forms of PHPT that are best treated by parathyroidectomy.

Indexed as

AdolescentChildFemaleHumansHypercalcemiaHyperparathyroidism, PrimaryMaleMutationReceptors, Calcium-SensingCASR protein, humanReceptors, Calcium-Sensing

Identifiers

PMID22989537
PMCPMC3710287
OpenAlexW2083335520

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