A 45 year-old woman with epilepsy who was treated with Carbamazepine (CBZ) 600 mg/daily for six years was seen at the neurology outpatient clinic with the complaints of back pain, weakness, fatigue, dizziness and recurrence of seizures during the last 2 months while she had been seizure free during the previous 4 years. She had been receiving no other medications. Detailed dietary and environme...

Objectives Oncogenic osteomalacia is a paraneoplastic syndrome in which the tumor secretes a peptide-like hormone, fibroblast growth factor, resulting in urinary loss of phosphates. Methods We present the case of a 50-year-old woman with a benign phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor (PMT) involving the ethmoid sinus with obstruction of the ostiomeatal complex causing unilateral nasal airway obstructi...

BACKGROUND Osteomalacia is now a rare disease in dialysis patients in developed countries since the withdrawal of aluminium overload. The involvement of fluoride and strontium in the pathogenesis of the disease has been suggested. The aim of this study was to investigate a possible association between osteomalacia in dialysis patients and the fluoride or strontium contents of bone. METHODS Of...

A lthough phosphate is important in skeletal mineralization, energy metabolism, and multiple enzymatic processes, little has been understood about the regulation of phosphate in health and disease until recently. Genetic and acquired disorders of phosphate homeostasis have begun to reveal important mechanisms for the regulation of phosphate metabolism. Candidate phosphate-regulating hormones (“...

Tumors associated with osteomalacia elaborate the novel factor(s), phosphatonin(s), which causes phosphaturia and hypophosphatemia by cAMP-independent pathways. We show that secreted frizzled-related protein-4 (sFRP-4), a protein highly expressed in such tumors, is a circulating phosphaturic factor that antagonizes renal Wnt-signaling. In cultured opossum renal epithelial cells, sFRP-4 specific...