Hypercalcemia.

Abstract

Elevated serum calcium occurs relatively uncommonly in dogs and rarely in cats. Hypercalcemia can serve as a marker of disease that enables diagnosis but may also contribute to development of lesions and the clinical signs of disease. Specific clinical signs do not necessarily accompany hypercalcemia, and its presence will frequently be unsuspected. Fortuitous hypercalcemia is often discovered after a review of serum biochemical profile results. This article emphasizes malignancy-associated hypercalcemia and the emergence of cholecalciferol rodenticide toxicity as an important cause of hypercalcemia, as well as its treatment.

• Authors: D J Chew, M Carothers
• Journal: The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice (Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract) Vol. 19 Issue 2 Pg. 265-87 (Mar 1989) ISSN: 0195-5616 [Print] United States
• PMID: 2648666 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Chemical References

• Calcium

Topics

• Animals
• Calcium (blood)
• Cat Diseases (etiology, therapy)
• Cats
• Dog Diseases (etiology, therapy)
• Dogs
• Hypercalcemia (etiology, therapy, veterinary)