Gheorghe Ana-Maria, Nistor Claudiu, Florescu Alexandru-Florin, Carsote Mara
PhD Doctoral School of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Department 4-Cardio-Thoracic Pathology, Thoracic Surgery II Discipline, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania.
Diseases. 2025 Mar 27;13(4):98. doi: 10.3390/diseases13040098.
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) represents a multi-faced disease with a wide spectrum of manifestations. Familial forms of PHPT (affecting up to 10% of the cases) involve a particular category that encompasses a large range of hereditary syndromes, including parathyroid hyper-function, frequently in the setting of a multi-glandular disease. : The aim was to analyze the most recent findings regarding PHPT in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2) to a better understanding of the timing with respect to the associated ailments, MEN2-related PHPT (MEN2-PHPT) clinical and genetic particularities, optimum diagnostic, and overall management, particularly, surgical outcomes. This was a PubMed-based compressive review with regard to the latest data published in English from January 2020 until January 2025, using the following keywords: "primary hyperparathyroidism" and "multiple endocrine neoplasia", "multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2", "MEN2", or "MEN2A". We included original full-length studies of any study design that provided clinically relevant data in MEN2-PHPT and excluded reviews, meta-analysis, and case reports/series. A total of 3783 individuals confirmed with MEN2 or pathogenic variants carriers were analyzed across 14 studies that provided data on PHPT. The prevalence of MEN2-PHPT subjects varied between 7.84% and 31.3%, with particularly low rates in non-index patients (3.8%). PHPT was the first syndrome manifestation in 0.9% of MEN2 patients. In terms of gender distribution, females represented 42.85% or 54.9% (similar rates between women and men, and only a single cohort showed a female rate up to 80%). Most subjects were diagnosed with PHPT and underwent surgery in the third or fourth decade of life. The highest median age at MEN2 diagnosis was 42 years. The youngest patients were pathogenic variants carriers who underwent (genetic) screening with median ages of 12 or 14 years. pathogenic variants analysis (n = 10/14 studies) showed that 16.67% of patients with p.Cys634Arg and 37.5% of those with p.Cys611Tyr had symptomatic PHPT, while those with p.Cys618Phe and p.Leu790Phe were asymptomatic. Timing analysis with respect to the medullary thyroid carcinoma diagnosis showed synchronous PHPT diagnosis in 80% and metachronous in 10% of MEN2 patients; with respect to MEN2-pheochromocytoma, synchronous diagnosis of PHPT was found in 56%, while pheochromocytoma was identified before PHPT in 22% of the cases and after PHPT in 22%. Studies (n = 10/14, N = 156 subjects with MEN2-PHPT) on parathyroidectomy identified that 72.7% to 100% of the individuals underwent surgery, typically performed in adulthood, at ages spanning from a mean of 34.7 to 48.5 years. The post-surgery outcomes varied (e.g., the rate for persistent PHPT was of 0%, 8% to 16.7%; recurrent PHPT of 12.5% to 23%; permanent hypoparathyroidism of 33% to 46%; permanent unilateral vocal cord palsy of 0% up to16.7%). Data regarding the number of involved glands (n = 7, N = 77): the prevalence of multi-glandular disease was pinpointed between 12.5% and 50%. : MEN2-PHPT involved unexpected high rates of single-gland involvement (from 33.3% to 87.5%), probably due to an early detection across genetic screening. Traditional female higher prevalence in PHPT was not confirmed in most MEN2 cohorts. As expected, a younger age at PHPT diagnosis and surgery than seen in non-MEN2 patients was identified, being tidily connected with the syndromic constellation of tumors/malignancies. Overall, approximately, one out of ten patients were further confirmed with MEN2 starting with PHPT as the first clinically manifested element.
原发性甲状旁腺功能亢进症(PHPT)是一种具有多种表现形式的疾病。家族性PHPT(占病例的10%)属于特殊类型,包括多种遗传性综合征,常伴有甲状旁腺功能亢进,且多为多腺体疾病。本研究旨在分析2型多发性内分泌腺瘤病(MEN2)中PHPT的最新研究结果,以更好地了解相关疾病的发病时间、MEN2相关PHPT(MEN2-PHPT)的临床和遗传特征、最佳诊断方法及整体治疗方案,特别是手术效果。这是一项基于PubMed的综述,纳入了2020年1月至2025年1月期间以英文发表的最新数据,关键词为“原发性甲状旁腺功能亢进症”“多发性内分泌腺瘤病”“2型多发性内分泌腺瘤病”“MEN2”或“MEN2A”。我们纳入了所有提供MEN2-PHPT临床相关数据的原始研究,排除了综述、荟萃分析和病例报告/系列研究。共有14项研究分析了3783例确诊为MEN2或携带致病基因变异的个体,这些研究提供了PHPT的数据。MEN2-PHPT患者的患病率在7.84%至31.3%之间,非索引患者的患病率尤其低(3.8%)。0.9%的MEN2患者中,PHPT是首个出现的综合征表现。在性别分布方面,女性占42.85%或54.9%(男女比例相似,只有一个队列显示女性比例高达80%)。大多数患者在30或40多岁时被诊断为PHPT并接受手术。MEN2诊断时的最高中位年龄为42岁。最年轻的患者是携带致病基因变异并接受(基因)筛查的患者,中位年龄为12或14岁。致病基因变异分析(14项研究中的10项)显示,携带p.Cys634Arg的患者中有16.67%出现症状性PHPT,携带p.Cys611Tyr的患者中有37.5%出现症状性PHPT,而携带p.Cys618Phe和p.Leu790Phe的患者无症状。与甲状腺髓样癌诊断时间相关的分析显示,80%的MEN2患者PHPT与甲状腺髓样癌同时诊断,10%为异时诊断;与MEN2-嗜铬细胞瘤相关的分析显示,56%的患者PHPT与嗜铬细胞瘤同时诊断,22%的病例中嗜铬细胞瘤在PHPT之前被发现,22%在PHPT之后被发现。关于甲状旁腺切除术的研究(14项研究中的10项,共156例MEN2-PHPT患者)发现,72.7%至100%的患者接受了手术,手术通常在成年期进行,平均年龄在34.7至48.5岁之间。术后结果各不相同(例如,持续性PHPT的发生率为0%、8%至16.7%;复发性PHPT的发生率为12.5%至23%;永久性甲状旁腺功能减退的发生率为33%至46%;永久性单侧声带麻痹的发生率为0%至16.7%)。关于受累腺体数量的数据(7项研究,共77例患者):多腺体疾病的患病率在12.5%至50%之间。MEN2-PHPT中单腺体受累的发生率意外较高(从33.3%至87.5%),这可能是由于基因筛查实现了早期诊断。大多数MEN2队列未证实PHPT中传统的女性较高患病率。正如预期的那样,与非MEN2患者相比,MEN2患者中PHPT诊断和手术的年龄更小,这与肿瘤/恶性肿瘤的综合征特征密切相关。总体而言,大约十分之一的患者最初以PHPT作为首个临床表现要素,随后被进一步确诊为MEN2。