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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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American family physician, 1990
Nutritional rickets was diagnosed in 18 infants aged eight to 24 months. Clinical features included progressive leg bowing, poor linear growth, a diet deficient in vitamin D, seizures, and abnormal serum calcium, phosphate and alkaline phosphatase levels.
K W, Feldman +2 more
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Nutritional rickets was diagnosed in 18 infants aged eight to 24 months. Clinical features included progressive leg bowing, poor linear growth, a diet deficient in vitamin D, seizures, and abnormal serum calcium, phosphate and alkaline phosphatase levels.
K W, Feldman +2 more
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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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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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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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Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1988
In Reply.—Dr Adelman's letter reminds us that nutritional rickets is encountered frequently in developing countries when breast-fed infants are deprived of sunlight and vitamin D supplements. As we noted in our article, most reports of nutritional rickets in the United States have been from the northeast, where seasonal sunlight variations remain a ...
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In Reply.—Dr Adelman's letter reminds us that nutritional rickets is encountered frequently in developing countries when breast-fed infants are deprived of sunlight and vitamin D supplements. As we noted in our article, most reports of nutritional rickets in the United States have been from the northeast, where seasonal sunlight variations remain a ...
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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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Parathyroid-Hormone Concentrations in Nutritional Rickets
Clinical Science, 19721. Elevated concentrations of immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (P.T.H.) were detected in the pre-treatment plasma samples of seven out of ten children with nutritional rickets. The three normal values occurred in an inactive case, an infant with associated kwashiorkor and a child with late onset juvenile rickets. 2.
B I, Joffe +3 more
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1978
S, Swarup-Mitra, A K, Bhattacharyya
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S, Swarup-Mitra, A K, Bhattacharyya
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