Molecular and Biochemical Aspects of Hypophosphatemic Rickets; an Updated Review

Molecular and Biochemical Aspects of Hypophosphatemic Rickets: An Updated Review

Rickets is associated with aberrant mineralization in growth plates leading to the deformity of bone structure. The two main types of rickets are phosphopenic and calcipenic rickets. Phosphopenic rickets is found in a variety of sorts; the most common is the X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets (HR) caused by a mutation in PHEX gene. The FGF23, DMP1, and PHEX are among the most important ...

Hypophosphatemic rickets and osteomalacia.

The hypophosphatemic conditions that interfere in bone mineralization comprise many hereditary or acquired diseases, all of them sharing the same pathophysiologic mechanism: reduction in the phosphate reabsorption by the renal tubuli. This process leads to chronic hyperphosphaturia and hypophosphatemia, associated with inappropriately normal or low levels of calcitriol, causing osteomalacia or ...

Hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria.

Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets

Hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets (HHR) are a group of diseases characterized by renal phosphate wasting causing growth retardation, rickets and osteomalacia. The most common form is the X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets caused by inactivating mutations in the PHEX gene. The other hereditary hypophosphatemic syndromes present a lower prevalence. These include autosomal dominant hypop...

Familial Hypophosphatemic Rickets - A Case Report and Review of Literature

Introduction Familial hypophosphatemic or X-linked hypophosphatemic (XLH) rickets is the most common form of non-nutritional rickets1. The prevalence of XLH rickets yet remain unknown in Bangladesh. It is an Xlinked dominant disorder characterized by renal phosphate wasting with consequent defect of bone mineralization1. Some form of the disease are observed to be transmitted which followed an ...