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Idiopathic infantile hypercalcemia or an extrapulmonary complication of tuberculosis?

[familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia]

Calcium metabolism disturbances are common in childhood. In infancy, hypercalcemia generally occurs due to hyperparathyroidism, familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, subcutaneous fat necrosis, total parenteral nutrition administration, hyperthyroidism, and adrenal insufficiency. Granulomatous disorders such as tuberculosis and sarcoidosis are rarer cause of hypercalcemia. Hypercalcemia outcomes including nephrocalcinosis, brain, eye, artery calcifications and encephalopathic features are life-threatening. We report a seven-month-old girl with miliary tuberculosis who presented with severe hypercalcemia.

Diseases presenting "hypercalcemia" symptom

  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cushing syndrome
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • kabuki syndrome
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia

This symptom has already been validated