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Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2023 AbstractNutritional rickets, caused by vitamin D and/or calcium deficiency is by far the most common cause of rickets. In resource-limited settings, it is therefore not uncommon to treat rickets with vitamin D and calcium. If rickets fails to heal and/or if there is a family history of rickets, then refractory rickets should be considered as a ...
Amish Chinoy, Raja Padidela
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Types and Clinical Profile of Rickets in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2009 Background: There are different types of rickets. Rickets presents with various clinical signs and symptoms. Familial X linked hypophosphatamic rickets (XLHR) is reported to be the commonest one.
Shohela Akhter +4 more
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Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012 Hypophosphatemic rickets is a disorder of bone mineralization caused due to defects (inherited/acquired) in the renal handling of phosphorus. This group includes varied conditions, X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets being the most common inheritable form of rickets. The other common forms are autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets and tumor-induced
Varsha S Jagtap +5 more
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Temporary brittle bone disease:association with intracranial bleeding [PDF]
, 2013 We report 20 infants aged between 1 month and 6 months found to have subdural bleeding and also multiple unexplained fractures in a pattern similar to that described earlier as temporary brittle bone disease. Child abuse seemed unlikely as a cause of the
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Nephrolithiasis, kidney failure and bone disorders in Dent disease patients with and without CLCN5 mutations [PDF]
, 2015 open9noDent disease (DD) is a rare X-linked recessive renal tubulopathy characterised by low-molecular-weight proteinuria (LMWP), hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis and/or nephrolithiasis. DD is caused by mutations in both the CLCN5 and OCRL genes.
Angela D’Angelo +9 more
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Vitamin D supplementation in the pediatric rheumatology clinic. [PDF]
, 2011 Vitamin D is capturing the attention of healthy and chronically ill populations for its potential skeletal and nonskeletal benefits. New information suggesting a role in immune modulation has led to a surge of interest among rheumatologists. Although the
Burnham, Jon M, von Scheven, Emily
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Alkaline phosphatase in clinical practice in childhood: Focus on rickets
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and its isoenzymes reflect bone metabolism: ALP increases the ratio of inorganic phosphate to pyrophosphate systemically and facilitates mineralization as well as reduces extracellular pyrophosphate concentration, an ...
Giuseppe Cannalire +6 more
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Vitamin D: Newer Concepts of Its Metabolism and Function at the Basic and Clinical Level. [PDF]
, 2020 The interest in vitamin D continues unabated with thousands of publications contributing to a vast and growing literature each year. It is widely recognized that the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and the enzymes that metabolize vitamin D are found in many ...
Bikle, Daniel D
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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 ...
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The roles of vitamin D and dietary calcium in nutritional rickets
Bone Reports, 2018 The etiology and pathogenesis of nutritional rickets are becoming progressively clearer. Vitamin D deficiency has generally been considered the major or only player in the pathogenesis of nutritional rickets.
Kebashni Thandrayen, John M. Pettifor
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