Colour vision in vitamin A deficiency
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suggests, as do our data, that responses to 1-x-OHD, and I-ax, 25-(OH)2D, are different enough to have important implications in treatment. Although hypercalcaemia remains a serious risk with all vitamin D derivatives the rapid reversal that is possible after I-x, 25-(OH),D, treatment makes this agent preferable to calciferol and possibly to 1-x-OHD,. This is particularly so in patients in whom hypercalcaemia is most likely to be troublesome -for example, those with precarious renal function, or those in whom hypercalcaemia has been previously induced.
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