ALLMedicine™ Hypercalcemia Center

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Osteoarticular manifestations such as arthritis and bone pain are scarce among adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We present a systematic review of osteoarticular first clinical manifestation related to ALL in adults, and we report a ...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - CCL18 has recently been implicated in malignancies and is increasingly mentioned as a potential tumoral biomarker and furtherly a molecular target for therapeutic intervention, but its expression and clinical significance in multiple myeloma have ...

Nov 30th, 2022 - Covid-19 is considered a primary respiratory disease-causing viral pneumonia and, in severe cases, leads to acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In addition, though, extra-pulmonary manifestations of Covid-19 have been...

Nov 29th, 2022 - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of early intravenous (IV) calcium on systolic blood pressure (SBP) when administered with IV diltiazem in subjects with atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter (AFL) with rapid ventricular response ...

Nov 24th, 2022 - Bone metastases frequently occur in patients with cancer. Skeletal-related events (SREs), including pain, impaired mobility, hypercalcemia, pathological fracture, spinal cord and nerve root compression, and bone marrow infiltration, can decrease t...

Jan 19th, 2019 - Adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma (ATL) is a distinct mature T-cell malignancy caused by chronic infection with human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 with diverse clinical features and prognosis. ATL remains a challenging disease as a result of its diver...

Feb 12th, 2017 - Multiple myeloma (MM) is caused by the neoplastic proliferation of plasma cells. These neoplastic plasma cells proliferate and produce monoclonal immunoglobulin in the bone marrow causing skeletal damage, a hallmark of multiple myeloma. Other MM-r...

Oct 12th, 2014 - Hydroelectrolytic disorders are one of the most common metabolic complications in cancer patients. Although often metabolic alterations affecting various ions are part of the manifestations of the oncological disease, even in the form of paraneopl...

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is found in some animal food products and is also synthesized in the human body via exposure to the sun. Toxicity of vitamin D leads to hypercalcemia and imbalance in the regulation of bone metabolism; the r...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Background: Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a precursor condition to MM defined by the clinical parameters of M-protein >=3.0 g/dL or bone marrow plasma cells >=10%, and absence of end organ disease. Patients with high-risk SMM have a risk of...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Familial multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), familial hypocalciuric (or familial benign) hypercalcemia (FHH), hyperparathyroidism - jaw tumor syndrome (HPT-JT), other causes of familial isolated hyperparathyroidism (FIHP), and pseudohypopa...

Oct 13th, 2022 - Chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD) is characterized by progressive loss of renal function as well as dysregulation of mineral and bone metabolism, leading frequently to hyperphosphatemia. Multiple studies have consistently ...

Oct 12th, 2022 - Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is the second most common primary malignant tumor of the respiratory tract after lung cancer and the second most common primary epithelial malignant tumor of the head and neck. The age of onset of LSCC is m...

Oct 7th, 2022 - Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma cell disorder characterized by osteolytic lesions, increased susceptibility to infections, hypercalcemia, and renal failure. Overall rationale of study is that daratumumab in combination with talquetamab or t...

Nov 23rd, 2022 - RLY-4008, a highly selective FGFR2 inhibitor, has demonstrated promising efficacy in patients with FGFR2-altered cholangiocarcinoma, while sparing patients the adverse effects (AEs) typically seen with pan-FGFR inhibitors, according to Suneel Kama...

Oct 28th, 2022 - The FDA has granted accelerated approval to teclistamab-cqyv (Tecvayli) for adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 4 previous lines of therapy, including a proteasome inhibitor (PI), an immunomodulat...

Oct 11th, 2022 - Transcript: Joseph Mikhael, MD: Let's move then into thinking about some of these now evident disparities. We've tried to think about the why. There's the biological phenomenon, there's the societal phenomenon which we're just hitting the top of ...

Oct 11th, 2022 - Transcript: Joseph Mikhael, MD: Excellent, that's helpful. On the subject of trying to figure out why and that is obviously this first module that we're looking at, Craig I'm going to turn to you for a moment because as a scientists we think mayb...

Aug 18th, 2022 - Brea Lipe, MD: Hello and welcome to this OncLive® My Treatment Approach program titled, "Recent Advances in the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma at First Relapse." I am Brea Lipe, and I'm the associate professor at the department of medicine at the U...