TY - JOUR T1 - Hypercalcaemia in asymptomatic sarcoidosis unmasked by a vitamin D loading dose JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 470 LP - 471 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00136910 VL - 37 IS - 2 AU - K. Amrein AU - G. Schilcher AU - A. Fahrleitner-Pammer Y1 - 2011/02/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/37/2/470.abstract N2 - To the Editors:The risk of occurrence of hypercalcaemia induced by vitamin D in certain conditions has recently been summarised by Kallas et al. 1. Despite the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among the healthy population and observational associations with cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, some types of cancer, tuberculosis and mortality 2, 3, there are currently no data to justify widespread use of vitamin D supplementation, taking into account the lack of large prospective randomised controlled trials.We would like to share our experience with calcitriol-mediated hypercalcaemia in an apparently healthy individual. A 26-yr-old obese female with a body mass index of 48.4 kg·m−2 was transferred to the endocrinology outpatient clinic of … ER -