Relationship between parathyroid gland size and responsiveness to maxacalcitol therapy in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism.

Autor: Okuno, Senji, Ishimura, Eiji, Kitatani, Kayoko, Chou, Hidenori, Nagasue, Kyoko, Maekawa, Kiyoshi, Izumotani, Tsuyoshi, Yamakawa, Tomoyuki, Imanishi, Yasuo, Shoji, Tetsuo, Inaba, Masaaki, Nishizawa, Yoshiki
Zdroj: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation; December 2003, Vol. 18 Issue: 12 p2613-2621, 9p
Abstrakt: Although vitamin D has been reported to be useful in the treatment of patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism, it is not effective in some of them. The goal of this study was to see whether a relationship could be found between maxacalcitol responsiveness and parathyroid gland size.
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