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Renal rickets-practical approach
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013 Rickets/osteomalacia is an important problem in a tropical country. Many cases are due to poor vitamin D intake or calcium deficient diets and can be corrected by administration of calcium and vitamin D.
Manisha Sahay, Rakesh Sahay
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Incidental Rickets in the Emergency Department Setting
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 Vitamin D deficiency rickets is a childhood osteomalacia, with impaired skeletal development and potentially skeletal deformities. The radiographic findings of rickets are many but include widening, fraying, and cupping of the metaphysis.
John V. Zurlo, Shaun R. Wagner
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Clinical Radiology, 1984 The radiological diagnosis of rickets is mainly based on the widened appearance of actively developing epiphyseal growth plates. In the adolescent with rickets the secondary iliac and ischial ossification centres may be abnormally wide when most other epiphyses have fused.
G J, Hunter +3 more
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Convulsions as primary manifestation of nutritional rickets [PDF]
Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013 Introduction: Rickets is diagnosed based on classical clinical features like craniotabes, rachitic rosary, widening of wrist joints, pot belly, hypotonia, bowed legs and supported by the laboratory evidence of hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, and raised ...
B.P. Karunakara +3 more
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Evaluation of diagnostic potential of CD38 in rickets
Molecular and Cellular ProbesBackground: Rickets occurs in infants and children (aged 2 months to 3 years), compromising their skeletal development and damaging nervous, hematopoietic, immune, and other system functions.
Yongjie Xia +5 more
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Pediatrics in ReviewAbstract Rickets remains one of the most common nontransmissible pediatric diseases, especially in low- to middle-income countries. Rickets is characterized by impaired mineralization of growing bone resulting in bone frailty, deformities, impaired growth and development, and pain with standing or walking. Nutritional rickets is the most
Sumana, Narasimhan +2 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 +5 more
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Treatable Cause of Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Rickets; Two Years’ Experience
, 2022 Objective:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DC) results from dilatation of one or both ventricles and is caused by systolic dysfunction. Rickets are a rare cause of DC.
Ülkem Koçoğlu Barlas +7 more
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Nutritional rickets presenting with developmental regression:a rare presentation of rickets [PDF]
, 2023 Rickets is a disorder of defective mineralisation of the growth plate. Vitamin D deficiency remains the leading cause of nutritional rickets worldwide. We present the case of a 3.5-year-old breastfed boy who presented with dental abscess when a history ...
Uday, Suma; id_orcid +1 more
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Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982 [PDF]
, 2013 How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous ...
Bivins, Roberta E.
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