Serum concentrations of immunoreactive calcitonin in patients with hypergastrinaemia

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C B LamersJ van Tongeren

Abstract

In order to test tthe hypothesis that chronically elevated serum gastrin levels induce hypercalcitoninaemia, we have measured serum calcitonin levels in patients with chronic hypergastrinaemia. Basal serum calcitonin concentrations were found to be elevated in 2 of 23 patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, but not in 16 patients with hypergastrinaemia due to achlorhydria or a single patient with primary hypergastrinaemia of antral origin. Both Zollinger-Ellison patients with hypercalcitoninaemia (0.31 and 0.79 ng/ml) had multiple endocrine adenomatosis type 1, but no medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. The hypercalcitoninaemia in these patients does not seem to be related to multiple endocrine adenomatosis type 1, since serum calcitonin was normal in 12 normogastrinaemic patients with hyperparathyroidism from families with multiple endocrine adenomatosis type 1. We conclude that chronically elevated serum gastrin levels do not result in hypercalcitoninaemia.

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