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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1973;55:87-94.
© 1973 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

Immobilization Hypercalcemia

SOME NEW ASPECTS OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

G. D. LAWRENCE 1, R. G. LOEFFLER 1, L. G. MARTIN M.D.1, and T. B. CONNOR M.D.1

1 From the Departments of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, Malcolm Grow United States Air Force Hospital Center, Washington, and Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore

Two months after fracturing his femur, while in a cast a twelve-year-old boy began to demonstrate hypercalcemia which persisted despite mobilization and intravenous saline treatment. Prednisone stopped the loss of calcium and cured the condition and the depressed serum parathormone then showed return to a normal level. The fracture had a delay in healing but finally in two years was healed.


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