Hypercalcemia in Cats

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Several serious medical conditions can result in hypercalcemia. It is important to identify the underlying cause of hypercalcemia in your cat so that effective treatment can be instituted. Disorders that can cause hypercalcemia include:

Lymphosarcoma, a type of cancer

Chronic kidney failure sometimes caused by hereditary kidney disease

Primary hyperparathyroidism, which is overactivity of the parathyroid gland usually due to a benign tumor called an adenoma

Hypoadrenocorticism, also known as Addison's disease, which is a hormonal disorder caused by insufficient production of steroid hormones by the adrenal glands

Apocrine gland adenocarcinoma of anal sac, or a cancer of the glands of the anal sacs

Vitamin D intoxication caused by consumption of vitamin D-containing rat poison

Vitamin D intoxication caused by consumption of vitamin D

-containing plants such as day-blooming Jessamine (Cestrum diurnum)

Vitamin D intoxication caused by consumption of topical ointments containing calcipotriene used to treat psoriasis in people

Multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of antibody-producing cells called plasma cells

Other cancers including squamous cell carcinoma, thyroid adenosarcoma, nasal adenocarcinoma, mammary gland adenocarcinoma, and others

Acute kidney failure

Granulomatous diseases, which refer to a specific type of inflammation, such as blastomycosis (fungal infection). In these diseases, inflammatory cells (called macrophages) are thought to produce vitamin D-like chemicals

Osteomyelitis, bacterial infection of bone

Overactivity of the parathyroid glands due to nutritional disturbances

Dehydration with increased blood concentrations of albumin, a major protein of the blood

Hypercalcemia can occur normally in young growing cats

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The kidneys filter blood, remove the waste products of metabolism, and eliminate them in the urine. Acute kidney failure (acute renal failure or ARF) is characterized by an abrupt decline in kidney function...
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2Chronic Renal (Kidney) Failure in Cats
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