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Paricalcitol

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A vitamin D analogue.

Brand name: Zemplar.

In 1998 paricalcitol was approved by the FDA for the treatment of hyperparathyroidism due to chronic renal failure.

It causes less elevation of calcium than calcitriol, another vitamin D analogue and is associated with a lower mortality rate than calcitriol in patients on long-term dialysis

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