Congenital rickets presenting with hypocaleaemic seizures

Orbak Z., Karacan M., Doneray H., Karakelleoglu C.

WEST INDIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.56, sa.4, ss.364-367, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 56 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Dergi Adı: WEST INDIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.364-367
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

At Ataturk University Hospital, eight infants who presented with hypocalcaemic seizures were subsequently found to have rickets. Their mothers had osteomalacia. Neither mothers nor infants received vitamin D supplementation. Maternal vitamin D deficiency and non-supplementation in the infants were causes of rickets in these patients. It is recommended that neonatal hypocalcaemia maybe due to maternal vitamin D deficiency and all unsupplemented vitamin D infants presenting with seizures should be investigated for rickets.