Evidence of healing of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronically hemodialyzed uremic patients treated with long-term intravenous calcitriol.

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of a long-term course of high-dose i.v. pulses of calcitriol (CLT) on hyperparathyroid bone disease (HBD) and functional mass of parathyroid glands of chronically hemodialyzed uremic (CHU) patients.