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Early Adolescent Nutritional Rickets

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2009
Purpose. To evaluate early adolescents with nutritional rickets and their responses to treatment. Methods. 203 adolescents (aged 10 to 13 years) presenting with clinical features of lower-limb deformity, carpopedal spasm, joint swelling, a significant ...
Anil Agarwal, Divesh Gulati
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A new metabolic path in type 3 rickets. [PDF]

FEBS J
Rickets, a bone disorder, was historically categorised into either nutritional (vitamin D deficiency) or genetic forms involving loss‐of‐function mutations in mineral metabolism. Recently, a new mechanism, type 3 rickets, was discovered to be caused by a gain‐of‐function mutation in CYP3A4 (Ile301Thr).
Senda T, Hirota Y.
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Nutritional rickets in Turkey. [PDF]

Eurasian J Med, 2010
Nutritional rickets (NR) remains the most common form of developmental bone disease, in spite of the efforts of clinicians and health care providers to reduce the incidence of the disease in Turkey. Today, it is well known that the etiology of NR exists along a spectrum ranging from isolated vitamin D deficiency to isolated calcium deficiency.
Ozkan B.
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Efficacy and safety of 90,000 IU versus 300,000 IU single dose oral Vitamin D in nutritional rickets: A randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2018
Aim: To compare efficacy and safety of 90,000 IU versus 300,000 IU oral single dose vitamin D for treatment of nutritional rickets. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Tertiary care hospital.
Medha Mittal, Vineeta Yadav, Rajesh Khadgawat, Manish Kumar, Poonam Sherwani   +4 more
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Spiral Fracture in Young Infant Causing a Diagnostic Dilemma: Nutritional Rickets versus Child Abuse [PDF]

Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2017
Fractures are uncommon in young, nonambulatory infants. The differential diagnosis includes nonaccidental injury (NAI) and metabolic bone disease, including rickets.
Sonia Kaushal, Manish Raisingani, Raphael David, Bina Shah   +3 more
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Beyond Nutritional Deficiency: Persistent Rickets as a Manifestation of Vitamin D‐Dependent Rickets Type II in a Toddler [PDF]

Clinical Case Reports
Vitamin D‐dependent rickets type II (VDDR‐II) is a rare hereditary disorder caused by mutations in the vitamin D receptor gene, resulting in resistance to active vitamin D and impaired calcium absorption. We report a 2‐year and 6‐month‐old female toddler
Abhisek Jha, Anil Yadav, Uma Shankar Jha, Preethuja Shah, Rohan Kumar Shah, Kuldeep Timilsina, Prabha Jha, Aabish Dahal, Saugat Bagale   +8 more
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Management of rickets: the new horizons for the pediatrician [PDF]

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Rickets is a major public health concern globally. It results from impaired mineralization of the growing bone at its growth plate associated with abnormal calcium and phosphate metabolism.
Rummana Tazia Tonny, Ranjit Ranjan Roy, Tahmina Jesmin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Nadira Sultana   +4 more
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A practical approach to diagnose and treat rickets [PDF]

Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2021
Rickets is a disease of growing bone, before fusion of epiphyses. There is defective mineralization of cartilage matrix in the zone of provisional calcification caused either by nutritional vitamin D deficiency and/or low calcium intake or by non ...
Aditi Jaiman, Lokesh Tiwari, Jatin Prakash, Ashish Jaiman   +3 more
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Clinical periodontal diagnosis

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi, Andrea Roccuzzo, Jean‐Claude Imber, Alexandra Stähli, Björn Klinge, Niklaus P. Lang   +5 more
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Clinical and Biochemical Profile of Nutritional Rickets in Infants: A Study from Peshawar

Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences, 2018
Objective: To determine the factors associated with nutritional rickets among infants in Peshawar and its surrounding. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan among mothers and their ...
Tanveer Hussain, Tahir Saeed Siddiqui
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