hypercalciuria

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Noun1.hypercalciuria - the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the urine; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or osteoporosis
symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
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Hypervitaminosis D and toxicity is rare and results after prolonged ingestion of large VD doses or use of overzealous VD supplementation with mega dose preparations and can give rise to hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria.
The most common was hypercalciuria (54%) followed by hyperoxaluria in 28% patients.
There is a report of an 18-year-old male twins with cat scratch fever, hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria with elevated 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels.
Adverse events were similar between the groups, except for a higher rate of possible hypercalciuria among the women receiving the highest dose of supplementation.
Hypercalciuria in familial hyperkalemia and hypertension accompanies hyperkalemia and precedes hypertension: Description of a large family with the Q565E WNK4 mutation.
Hypercalciuria, dizziness, nausea, headache, palpitations, fatigue, upper abdominal pain, vertigo.
Further work-up revealed hypercalciuria (24 h calcium excretion, 396 mg/day) and high normal serum calcium levels (10.1 mg/dL).
Despite suppressive antibiotic therapy and medical therapy for hypercalciuria, she presented four years later with intraluminal encrustations in the proximal end of the device.
(2) Another indirect effect of hyperglycaemia is glycosuria, which causes hypercalciuria leading to decreased levels of calcium in the body and poor bone quality and fastens bone loss.
Therefore, vitamin D synthesis was thought to be increased by sunlight, and this did not cause hypervitaminosis or hypercalciuria (11).
(2) Aberrant calcium metabolism is also associated with sarcoidosis and other granulomatous diseases, presenting most commonly with hypercalciuria. Symptomatic hypercalcemia is seen in a small proportion of cases (approximately 5%) and rarely causes kidney damage.
These causes include vitamin D deficiency, malabsorption, hypogonadism, hypercalciuria, and myeloma.
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