The changing profile of hypercalcemia in a tertiary care setting in North India: an 18-month retrospective study.

This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the profile of hypercalcemia in all patients who presented to Medanta-The Medicity, a tertiary care hospital in North India. A total of 255,830 patients presented to the hospital during 1st January 2014 till 30th June 2015 (18 months). Among them calcium measurement was done in 26,297 (10.2%) patients. A total of 552 patients was found to have hypercalcemia. Among them, 15 (2.7%) patients had transient hypercalcemia and 537 (97.3%) had sustained hypercalcemia. The incidence of hypercalcemia was 2.09%, being transient in 0.05% and sustained in 2.04%. The most common causes in the sustained group were malignancy (23.1%) followed by primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT, 21.9%). Most cases of PHPT were asymptomatic. Interestingly, we found emergence of two unusual groups of hypercalcemia, namely hypercalcemia of advanced chronic liver disease (n = 34) and vitamin D toxicosis (n = 21) in the non-parathyroid group of hypercalcemia. This changing pattern of hypercalcemia should be kept in mind while evaluating a patient of hypercalcemia in a hospital setting.

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