Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Short-term Calcimimetics Treatment - Relevance for Parathyroid Surgery Decisions?
Brief Summary:
Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) often present with fatigue, psychological and cognitive symptoms. Improvement in these symptoms after parathyroid adenomectomy (PTX) has been reported. But physicians lack a method to attribute the symptoms to pHPT and to predict the reversibility after PTX.
This study aims to evaluate short-term calcimimetic treatment as a tool for predicting the outcome of PTX on muscle strength, quality of life, psychological symptoms, and cognitive function in patients with pHPT.
Material and Methods: 118 patients scheduled for PTX at Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, will have a four week treatment with calcimimetics (Mimpara®) before undergoing surgery. Biochemicals, muscle strength, quality of life, psychological symptoms and cognitive function will be analysed at baseline, after four week follow-up and postoperatively.
Hypothesis: The outcome of short-term calcimimetic treatment can predict the outcome of PTX on muscle strength, quality of life, psychological symptoms, and cognitive function in patients with pHPT