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In medicine milk-alkali syndrome also called Burnett’s syndrome in honor of Charles Hoyt Burnett (1913–1967) the American physician who first described it is characterized by hypercalcemia caused by repeated ingestion of calcium and absorbable alkali (such as calcium carbonate or milk and sodium bicarbonate). If untreated milk-alkali syndrome may lead to metastatic calcification and renal failure.