Variable Presentations of Rickets in Children in the Emergency Department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-130

  Bloom, Erete ^a   Klein, Eileen J ^a,b   Shushan, Denise ^a   Feldman, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypocalcemia; Rickets; Seizure; Tetany

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; RICKETS; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TETANY; VITAMIN D RESISTANT RICKETS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFANT; MALE; PHOSPHORUS; RICKETS; SEIZURES; TETANY; VITAMIN D;

EID: 1242316302     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000113889.10140.7a     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Kreiter SR, Schwartz RP, Kirkman HN Jr, et al. Nutritional rickets in African American breast-fed infants. J Pediatr. 2000;137(2):153-157.
2. Biser-Rohrbaugh A, Hadley-Miller N. Vitamin D deficiency in breast-fed toddlers. J Pediatr Orthop. 2001;21(4):508-511.
3. Joiner TA, Foster C, Shope T. The many faces of vitamin D deficiency rickets. Pediatr Rev (Online). 2000;21(9):296-302.
4. Welch TR, Bergstrom WH, Tsang RC. Vitamin D-deficient rickets: the reemergence of a once-conquered disease. J Pediatr. 2000;137(2): 143-145.
5. Feldman KW, Marcuse EK, Springer DA. Nutritional rickets. Am Fam Physician. 1990;42(5):1311-1318.
6. Do TT. Clinical and radiographic evaluation of bowlegs. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2001;13(1):42-46.
7. Duplechin RY, Nadkarni M, Schwartz RP. Hypocalcemic tetany in a toddler with undiagnosed rickets. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34(3):399-402.
8. Herman MJ, Bulthuis DB. Incidental diagnosis of nutritional rickets after clavicle fracture. Orthopedics. 1999;22(2):254-255.
9. Jagdeo DG, Rambihar VS, Liu PC. Rickets presenting as seizures in the emergency department: medico-cultural implications. Pediatr Emerg Care. 1998;14(3):215-216.
10. Kaper BP, Romness MJ, Urbanek PJ. Nutritional rickets: report of four cases diagnosed at orthopaedic evaluation. Am J Orthop. 2000;29(3): 214-218.
11. Behrman R, Kliegman R, Arvin A. Textbook of Pediatrics. 15th ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co; 1996.
12. Paterson CR. Vitamin D deficiency rickets simulating child abuse. J Pediatr Orthop. 1981;1(4):423-425.
13. Pugliese MT, Blumberg DL, Hludzinski J, et al. Nutritional rickets in suburbia. J Am Coll Nutr. 1998;17(6):637-641.
14. Thacher TD. Images in clinical medicine. Nutritional rickets. N Engl J Med. 1999;341(8):576.
15. Zeiss J, Wycliffe ND, Cullen BJ, et al. Radiological case of the month. Simulated child abuse in drug-induced rickets. Am J Dis Child. 1988; 142(12):1367-1368.
16. Bishop N. Rickets today - children still need milk and sunshine [letter; comment]. N Engl J Med. 1999;341(8):602-604.
17. States LJ. Imaging of metabolic bone disease and marrow disorders in children. Radiol Clin North Am. 2001;39(4):749-772.
18. Reynolds WA, Karo JJ. Radiologic diagnosis of metabolic bone disease. Orthop Clin North Am. 1972;3(3):521-543.
19. Sergi C, Linderkamp O. Pathological case of the month: classic rickets in a setting of significant psychosocial deprivation. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155(8):967-968.
20. Uysal S, Kalayci AG, Baysal K. Cardiac functions in children with vitamin D deficiency rickets. Pediatr Cardiol. 1999;20(4):283-286.
21. Oginni LM, Sharp CA, Worsfold M, et al. Healing of rickets after calcium supplementation. Lancet. 1999;353(9149):296-297.
22. Ozauh PO. Planning the treatment of a patient who has rickets. Pediatr Rev. 2000;21(8):286.