Most clinicians only have a limited experience in treating childhood hypercalcemia with bisphosphonates. We report our experience in the use of intravenous and oral bisphosphonates in a 5-year-old with hypercalcemia secondary to acute lymphocytic…
The response to the bisphosphonate, pamidronate, is reported in a child with osteogenesis imperfecta who had recurrent symptomatic hypercalcaemia after immobilisation following fractures. Oral clodronate was effective in the prevention of…
Bisphosphonates have become standard treatment in management of malignancy-induced hypercalcemia and malignant bone pain. One obstacle to the routine use of bisphosphonates in palliative patients is that oral bisphosphonates have low bioavailability…
