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Jií ed, MD

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Solorzano et al¹ performed a very important retrospective case study on 505 patients with hyperparathyroidism, with a mean follow-up of 41 months. They found that more than 33% of patients had elevated parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels after 6 months, though only 4.8% of them developed recurrent disease. This finding is extremely important for clinical practice.

Our group recently published a study² about 10 children (of 790 patients treated in our department 1996-2007) with primary hyperparathyroidism. Although we monitored PTH levels in only 7 of these 10 children, we did not find any of them to have persistent postoperative elevation of PTH levels.

The ages of patients in the study by Solorzano et al¹ ranged from 15 to 96 years; thus there were several adolescents in their study. However, they only mentioned in their discussion that "patients with elevated PTH levels were older, had higher preoperative . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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