


What is the differential diagnosis of hypercalcemia?
“CHIMPANZEES”:
- Calcium overdose
- Hyperparathyroidism (1°/2°/3°),
- Hyperthyroidism, Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia (familial)
- Immobility/Iatrogenic (thiazide diuretics)
- Metastasis/Milk alkali syndrome (rare)
- Paget's disease (bone)
- Addison's disease/acromegaly
- Neoplasm (colon, lung, breast, prostate, multiple myeloma)
- Zollinger–Ellison syndrome
- Excessive vitamin D
- Excessive vitamin A
- Sarcoid