Clinical responses to a mega-dose of vitamin D3 in infants and toddlers with vitamin D deficiency rickets

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-26

  Soliman, Ashraf T ^a   El Dabbagh, Mohamed ^a   Adel, Ashraf ^a   Al Ali, Maryam ^a   Aziz Bedair, Elsaid M ^a   ElAlaily, Rania K ^a  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

25 hydroxy vitamin D; Calcium; Growth; Mega dose; Phosphate; PTH; Rickets; Vitamin D3

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE; 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; FRONTAL BOSSING; HEALING; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QATAR; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RICKETS; SHORT STATURE; TETANY; TODDLER; TOOTH ERUPTION; VARUS KNEE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WALKING; WRIST DISEASE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CALCIUM; CHOLECALCIFEROL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QATAR; RICKETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 77950346792     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmp040     Document Type: Article

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