title: Hypercalcemia in a 55-year-old male.
abstract: A 55-year-old male presented to the AHEC Southwest Family Medicine Residency inpatient medicine service at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, with a recent history of decreased level of consciousness. He was a resident of a local nursing home because of several chronic illnesses. During the initial evaluation in the emergency department, he was noted to have a serum calcium level of 13.8 mg/dL. A repeat level was 14.2 mg/dL. He was admitted to investigate the change in mental status and to initiate the work-up and treatment of hypercalcemia.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine Residency Program, AHEC Southwest, Texarkana, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mayo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010282:Parathyroid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*