Acute renal failure due to hypercalcemia-related nephrocalcinosis in a patient of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma featuring swelling of bilateral kidneys

Mechanisms of Humoral Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Leukemia/Lymphoma

“…Increased PTHrP, IL-6, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D concentrations have been reported in the serum from patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma that developed hypercalcemia (Amezyane et al, 2008;Chang et al, 2008). Diffuse osteolytic lesions and nephrocalcinosis also occurred in these patients.…”