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Drawing from personal experience, Patty Keating advocates for greater awareness, improved diagnosis, and treatment among ...

Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MDMedically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD A parathyroid hormone blood test measures the amount of parathyroid hormone in your blood. This is important for ...

Turkey: A recent retrospective study explored the effects of parathyroidectomy (PTX) on inflammatory and cardiovascular risk ...

If you’re wondering how it’s able to do this so efficiently, you can thank your parathyroid glands. These four small glands that sit behind the thyroid gland in your neck produce a hormone called ...

Hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) is an uncommon condition that happens when your body doesn’t make enough parathyroid hormone (PTH) or the blood levels of PTH are undetectable. How Do You Know If ...

Blood tests can be highly suggestive of a celiac disease diagnosis, but small bowel biopsies remain the definitive way to ...

Investigations. Measurement of levels of serum phosphate, parathyroid hormone, ionized calcium and insulin; measurement of peak growth hormone by the arginine–levodopa stimulation test ...

Scarless transoral thyroidectomy or transoral vestibular approach (TOVA) allows for the safe and total removal of the thyroid or parathyroid glands with absolutely no external scarring to the neck. Of ...