How do you handle elevated blood calcium levels from lithium?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Lithium in the past would often show up as calcium on blood tests, leading to an artificially elevated level. I don’t know if the modern tests have fixed that. Usually, I will watch it if over time the calcium is only mildly elevated, or refer for further workup (such as parathyroid issues, bo...
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I would check PTH with calcium level because lithi...
I would refer to the primary doctor to double-chec...