Hypercalcemia and Parathyroidectomy

Hypercalcemia may prove to be deadly if decompensation occurs from a chronic state and if is compounded by fluid depletion then the situation could possibly get out of hand. We present a case highlighting the above mentioned statement in a case of emergency parathyroidectomy where the wide variations in blood pressure caused due to insufficient patient preparation led to very unstable intraoperative course