Calcitonin Levels in Chronic Renal Disease

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Abstract

High levels of serum calcitonin were found in patients with chronic renal failure. Serum calcitonin correlated directly with the phosphate to total calcium ratio; calcitonin levels correlated inversely with serum calcium in those patients on dialysis and directly with serum calcium in nondialysis patients. All patients had elevated serum gastrin. The high levels of serum calcitonin usually decreased following successful kidney transplantation. The pathophysiology of this hypercalcitonemia and its relationship to renal osteodystrophy and the disordered calcium metabolism of uremia remains to be elucidated.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEF

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nephron

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1660-8151

Title: Nephron

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1660-8151

ISSN (Electronic): 2235-3186

Publication date Subscription-year: 1977

Publication date (Print): 1977

Publication date (Electronic): 28 November 2008

Volume: 19

Issue: 1

Pages: 12-18

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Veterans Administration Hospital; George Washington University, and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

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Publisher ID: 180860 Other ID: Nephron 1977;19:12–18

DOI: 10.1159/000180860

PubMed ID: 331128

SO-VID: 442f80e7-7d17-48cd-a647-39fb1bcc9ef5

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History

Date received : 17 November 1975

Date accepted : 14 April 1976

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Pages: 7

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