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Pediatric Emergency Care, 2006
In the emergency department, opportunities exist for the emergency physician to make a diagnosis beyond the chief complaint. For example, an astute reader of pediatric radiographs may detect signs of rickets on plain films that are obtained for other reasons.
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In the emergency department, opportunities exist for the emergency physician to make a diagnosis beyond the chief complaint. For example, an astute reader of pediatric radiographs may detect signs of rickets on plain films that are obtained for other reasons.
Laurie, Hickey +2 more
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Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1991
Nutritional rickets was once felt to be a disease of the past. In recent years, dietary patterns and the prevalence of unsupplemented breast feeding has led to a mild resurgence in rickets. The cases presented show a wide spectrum of nutritional disease, illustrating the common risk factors, the usefulness of vitamin-D metabolite assays in making a ...
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Nutritional rickets was once felt to be a disease of the past. In recent years, dietary patterns and the prevalence of unsupplemented breast feeding has led to a mild resurgence in rickets. The cases presented show a wide spectrum of nutritional disease, illustrating the common risk factors, the usefulness of vitamin-D metabolite assays in making a ...
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Nutritional rickets in Calabar, Nigeria
Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, 1995The features of 20 cases of nutritional rickets who presented at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar in south-eastern Nigeria over a 9-year period (January 1985-December 1993) are presented. The aim is to compare them with those in the only other reports from Nigeria between 18 and 42 years ago from Ibadan in the west of the country ...
E E, Ekanem, D E, Bassey, M, Eyong
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Pseudotumor cerebri and nutritional rickets
European Journal of Pediatrics, 1985A bulging fontanelle due to benign increased intracranial pressure is not generally recognized as a manifestation of nutritional rickets but should be considered in the appropriate clinical setting. Two children who we saw presented with bulging anterior fontanelles were found to have pseudotumor cerebri in association with nutritional rickets.
A R, DeJong, C A, Callahan, J, Weiss
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Nutritional Rickets Presenting with Myelofibrosis
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2010We describe the clinical course of a 10-month-old breastfed infant with rickets and associated myelofibrosis presenting with anemia and hepatosplenomegaly. Over the follow up, on therapeutic supplementation of vitamin D, child showed reduction in liver and spleen size along with improvement in rickets, anemia, growth and developmental parameters.
Bhanu Kiran, Bhakhri, Pradeep K, Debata
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Reemerging Nutritional Rickets
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2005Recent case reports highlight the resurgence of rickets in certain groups of breastfed infants. Infants residing in the North, irrespective of skin color, and dark-skinned African American infants residing anywhere in the United States are most vulnerable to nutritional rickets if they are exclusively breastfed past age 6 months without vitamin D ...
Rajakumar, K, Thomas, S
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Nutritional Rickets in San Diego
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1987Despite the ability of infants to synthesize vitamin D through exposure to sunlight, nutritional rickets occasionally develops in infants even in areas with perennially sunny climates. In San Diego, a 1-year-old breast-fed infant presented with classic signs of nutritional rickets.
I, Hayward, M T, Stein, M I, Gibson
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Nutritional rickets around the world
The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2013Nutritional rickets is a major public health problem in many countries of the world. The disease is characterized by deformities of the long bones, enlargement of the wrists and costochondral junctions, hypotonia and, in infants, craniotabes and delayed fontanelle closure.
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Screening for nutritional rickets in a community
The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2016Concern has been expressed about the rising incidence of nutritional rickets with its associated long-term sequelae in children globally. In order to address the condition worldwide, it is imperative that accurate figures of its incidence are available particularly in at-risk communities.
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Calcium deficiency rickets: extending the spectrum of 'nutritional' rickets
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2014Rickets is a condition of growing children in which there is failure of normal mineralisation of the epiphyseal growth plate. Normal growth plate development is dependent upon a cascade of events that consists of resting chondrocytes becoming preproliferative, proliferative, hypertrophic and finally apoptotic, which is a signal for the invasion of the ...
Jeremy, Allgrove, M Zulf, Mughal
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