Rickets, vitamin D deficiency, adolescents

[Hereditary pseudo-vitamin D deficiency rickets].

Vitamin-D deficiency rickets in Jamaican children.

Vitamin-D deficiency is not as rare in Jamaica as previously believed. 9 children with vitamin-D deficiency rickets have been seen at the University Hospital of the West Indies during the past 5 years. All were over 3 years of age at time of presentation. Both dietary deficiency of vitamin D and lack of exposure to sunlight seem to be important causes. Children living in rural Jamaica seem to b...

Secondary prevention of vitamin D-deficiency rickets.

Reports of vitamin D-deficiency rickets and its associated morbidity continue among inadequately supplemented, dark-skinned breastfed infants. Despite the new vitamin D dietary guidelines, there remain significant numbers of unsupplemented breastfed infants. Here we report a case of subclinical vitamin D-deficiency rickets. This patient had biochemical and radiographic but not clinical evidence...

Vitamin D deficiency rickets with Lamellar ichthyosis.

Myelofibrosis in severe vitamin D deficiency rickets.

Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in infants and children in the underdeveloped countries. Infants with mild deficiency tend to present with complications like hypocalcemic seizures whereas occurrence of pathological features in advanced rickets is well elucidated. Secondary myeloflbrosis has been reported as a complication of severe rickets and in these children anemia, myeloid metaplasia and ...