Clinical Review
Milk-Alkali Syndrome [published correction appears in: Fed Pract. 2005;22(3):66.]
Case in Point
Fed Pract. 2005 February;22(2):12
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Samar Gupta, MD, Virginia G. Foshee, MD
Dr. Gupta is a physician in the department of internal medicine and rheumatology at the Cheyenne VA Medical Center, Cheyenne, WY and a clinical instructor at the University of Colorado Health Science Center School of Medicine, Denver. Dr. Fosheeis a resident physician at the University of Wyoming's Family Practice Residency Program at Cheyenne.
As an etiology of hypercalcemia, this syndrome had all but disappeared. Now it's resurfaced. This case illustrates why.