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Epidemiology of nutritional rickets in children
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2009 In most developing countries, nutritional rickets is a major health problem. The aim of this study was to explore the magnitude of nutritional rickets among Saudi infants, and the various clinical presentations, as well as to address the possible ...
Al-Atawi M +4 more
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Global Consensus Recommendations on Prevention and Management of Nutritional Rickets [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2016 Background: Vitamin D and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, causing nutritional rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of infants, children, and adolescents; the consequences can be lethal or can ...
Craig Munns +2 more
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Nutritional rickets in Taiwanese children: Experiences at a single center
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2018 Background/purpose: The number of children with nutritional rickets in Taiwan has increased over the last decade. The aim of this study was to present our experiences in the management of patients with this condition.
Li-Hsin Chuang +5 more
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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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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 +4 more
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Genetic aspects of nutritional rickets. [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1976 Amino acid excretion was investigated in 21 rachitic infants and in 22 of their parents. There was (a) increased alpha-amino acid excretion in one-third of the infants a long time after the rickets had healed, (b) an abnormally high excretion of alpha-amino nitrogen and of phosphorus in many of the parents (c) an abnormal pattern of amino acid ...
Doxiadis, S. +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 +3 more
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J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol, 2010 Nutritional rickets (NR) is still the most common form of growing bone disease despite the efforts of health care providers to reduce the incidence of the disease. Today, it is well known that the etiology of NR ranges from isolated vitamin D deficiency (VDD) to isolated calcium deficiency. In Turkey, almost all NR cases result from VDD.
Ozkan B.
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A case of dilated cardiomyopathy due to nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets [PDF]
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2003 Vitamin D deficiency rickets was detected as the cause in a nine-month-old girl with dilated cardiomyopathy and signs of congestive heart failure.
Haşim Olgun, Naci Ceviz, Behzat Ozkan
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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 +3 more
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