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What Groups of Patients on Dialysis Who Have Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Might Not Benefit from Calcimimetics?

Patrick Parfrey Patrick Parfrey, MD, is professor with the John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Memorial University, St John’s, NL, Canada.

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