Background The development of osteoporosis and fractures is a well-documented complication bariatric surgery (BS), especially with procedures associated malabsorption. Due to the gradual increase BS performed worldwide, several national international societies have developed clinical guidelines for managing these patients, special attention prevention treatment. Nevertheless, subjects can also ...

backgroundrickets is a disorder due to impaired metabolism of bone mineralization which caused by low concentrations of extra-cellular calcium or phosphate. in children, hypophosphatemic rickets (hr) happen malabsorption of phosphate and increasing of renal tubular loss.case presentation we present the case of a 4-year-old girl who had medical history of hr with failure to thrive (ftt). child h...

I have read Dr. Matthana’s intriguing article1 with its attractive title that linked fibromyalgia with vitamin D deficiency, as one recalls the overlap of the clinical features of fibromyalgia with those of osteomalacia (adult vitamin D deficiency disease). Dr. Matthana very well covered the recent literature on the subject, however, I have to question the accuracy of her diagnosis of fibromyal...

CASE REPORT A 29-year-old wheelchair-bound woman was presented to us by the gastroenterologist with suspected osteomalacia. She had lived in the Netherlands all her life and was born of Moroccan parents. Her medical history revealed iron deficiency, growth retardation, and celiac disease, for which she was put on a gluten-free diet. She had progressive bone pain since 2 years, difficulty with w...

Introduction Vitamin D deficiency is the major cause of rickets and osteomalacia, bone diseases which lead to several deformities of the skeleton. This paper gives a review about skeletal evidence of both diseases in Europe. First, it is necessary to explain the main principles of vitamin D metabolism in order to understand causes and effects of vitamin D deficiency. These aspects are followed ...

Tumor-induced osteomalacia is a rare acquired metabolic bone disorder characterized by isolated renal phosphate wasting due to abnormal tumor production of fibroblast growth factor 23. We report the case of a 59 year old woman referred to our department with a long history of progressive diffuse muscle weakness and pain, generalized bone pains and multiple insufficiency fractures of heels, ankl...