300,000 IU or 600,000 IU of oral vitamin D3 for treatment of nutritional rickets: A randomized controlled trial

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 265-272

  Mittal, Hema ^a   Rai, Sunita ^a   Shah, Dheeraj ^a   Madhu, S V ^a   Mehrotra, Gopesh ^a   Malhotra, Rajeev Kumar ^a   Gupta, Piyush ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Rickets; Serum 25(OH)D; Stoss therapy; Treatment; Vitamin D3

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; CREATININE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; CALCIFEDIOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; INFANT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RICKETS; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D INTOXICATION; VOMITING; BLOOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIFEDIOL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLECALCIFEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RICKETS;

EID: 84905111812     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 09747559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13312-014-0399-7     Document Type: Article

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