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A case is reported of a patient, aged 20, with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, manifested with the picture of epilepsy with a long treatment with antiepileptic remedies. Two years after the initiation of the antiepilertic treatment, severe skeleton disturbances occurred with manifested osteoporosis and multiple symmetric zones of bone reconstruction, hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and elevated serum alkaline phosphatase. The disturbances of calcium and phosphorus level in blood are favourably affected by the application of relatively high vitamin D doses. The role of the long-term anticonvulsive treatment in the development of vitamin D resistant rickets and osteomalacia is discussed.
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PMID:[Bone metabolic disorders after prolonged treatment with antiepileptic agents in a patient with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism]. 101 20

The findings in 20 cases of nutritional rickets treated on an out-patient basis with oral calciferol and calcium gluconate are reported. Attention was paid to their clinical, biochemical and radiological responses. If was noted that presentation at the hospital out-patient department was always delayed until there were obvious and sometimes severe deformities in the children. Biochemical changes noted during the early phase of treatment showed an initial fall in the level of serum calcium and plasma phosohorus and a rise in the serum alkaline phosphatase. About three months after initiating treatment, calcium and phosphorus reverted to normal levels but serum alkaline phosphatase still remained high. Twelve of our cases (60 per cent) suffered from protein calorie malnutrition of the marasmic type and showed an apparent resistance to vitamin D therapy in what may be regarded as normal dosages. Response was however, achieved with substantial increase in the amount of vitamin given. There was a striking sex difference in the ratio of 15 males to five females indicating that males are more likely to develop nutritional rickets than females when subjected to predisposing environmental conditions. Vitamin D resistant type of rickets was not encountered in this study.
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PMID:Rickets in Nigerian children--response to vitamin D. 108 35

Bone mineral content (BMC) ub tge forearms (related to total body calcium) was measured for a controlled therapeutic trial in 25 epileptic children on long-term treatment with phenytoin and in 22 normal children before and during treatment with vitamin D or placebo. In the epileptic children, hypocalcaemia and elevated serum alkaline phosphatase was found in 20% and 16%, respectively. The group of epileptic children treated with vitamin D2 (2000 IU daily) for 3 months showed a significant increase in bone mineral content, 5% on average. The epileptic children treated with placebo showed a significant decrease, 2% on average, while the normal children treated with vitamin D or placebo showed no change in bone mineral content. The results indicate a possible benefit of prophylactic vitamin D treatment in epileptic children.
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PMID:Iatrogenic osteomalacia in epileptic children. A controlled therapeutic trial. 113 Jan 78

A survey of 289 severely retarded inpatients at a school for retarded children in American Fork; Utah revealed 67 patients with osteomalacia as defined by hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, elevated serum alkaline phosphatase levels, and appropriate bone changes. Investigation of the variables which might influence bone mineralization revealed no differences in age, sex, physical activity, sunshine exposure, or dietary intake of vitamin D between the osteomalacia and nonosteomalacia groups. However, all of the patients with osteomalacia were receiving anticonvulsant medications, either phenobarbital, diphenylhydantoin, or both. Duration of anticonvulsant therapy was the most important contributing factor to the development of osteomalacia. Seventy-five percent of patients who had received anticonvulsants for more than ten years had osteomalacia. The single most costly medical problem at the school is the treatment of pathologic bone fractures due to demineralized bone.
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PMID:Osteomalacia associated with anticonvulsant drug therapy in mentally retarded children. 116 62

Ten years of experience with daily prophylaxis of rickets brought about isolated knowledge which corrected old mistakes and demands a revision of older attitudes towards the usual prophylaxis. Prophylaxis of vitamin D according to the most modern and reliable knowledge in the best way promotes the growth and mineralisation of the skeleton with dosages of 400 to 800 I.U. smaller or higher dosages are disadvantageous. By observing the above given dosage, rickets and hypercalcaemia are rare and only conceivable under special pathological conditions. The diagnosis of beginning rickets must be well known, otherwise unspecific symptoms of rickets may induce the administration of unnecessarily high amounts of vitamin D. The symptoms of rickets show a gradual increase: the increase of serum alkaline phosphatase precedes the clinical and radiological symptoms. The reliable radiographic deformities of the hand can first be seen at the Ulna, then at the Radius and later at the secondary centers of Metacarpals. Among the relatively reliable clinical symptoms there its first the rosary later the Marfan-sign and eventually the deformation of the long bones. For infants protected by vitamin D, craniotabes as a sign of rickets is completely unreliable as well as the Harrison grooves and rachitic kyphosis. If one observes all these rules and rachitic kyphosis. If one observes all these rules and criterions vitamin D is as reliable in the prophylaxis as in the therapy of vitamin D deficiency rickets.
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PMID:[Ten years' daily prophylaxis against rickets--review and outlook (author's transl)]. 119 21

Four patients with advanced chronic renal failure and osteodystrophy were treated with 1-alphahydroxycholecalciferol, a synthetic vitamin D analogue, in a daily oral dose of 1.5 to 2.0 mug, for periods up to 1 year. They showed increased calcium absorption, positive calcium and phosphorus balances, moderate increases in serum calcium levels, marked reductions in serum alkaline phosphatase levels, a decrease in serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone levels, and radiologic and histologic improvement in bone disease. One patient with proximal myopathy showed improvement in muscular strength. 1-Alphahydroxycholecalciferol appears to be effective therapy for renal osteodystrophy.
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PMID:1-alphahydroxycholecalciferol in chronic renal failure. Studies of the effect or oral doses. 125 63

Plasma calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, total protein, and albumin were measured during pregnancy in a group of Asian women living in the south of England and in a control group. The Asian women had slightly lower mean plasma calcium concentrations than the control group. Exposure of Asian women to sunshine appeared to be low, and it was inferred that they probably had little endogenous synthesis of cholecalciferol as a result. Both Asian and control subjects ingested similarly low amounts of vitamin D. The Asian women consumed greater amounts of phytate and vegetable fibres than the controls, and it is suggested that these substances may reduce absorption of insoluble lipids (including cholecalciferol) and calcium in a setting where the dietary intake and endogenous synthesis of vitamin D are already borderline for the subject's requirements.
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PMID:Plasma calcium levels in pregnant Asian women. 126 11

Material has been obtained by biopsy from the right iliac crest of 60 adult epileptic out-patients receiving chronic anticonvulsant therapy with diphenylhydantoin (DPH), either in single-drug or combined-drug regime, and of 16 controls with the same distribution by sex and age. Four (7%) of the epileptics were hypocalcemic and 25 (42%) had elevated serum alkaline phosphatase values. A quantitative analysis of the morphological bone changes was performed on decalcified and undecalcified bone, using integrating filters and the point count principle. An increased amount of unmineralized bone was found in 32 (53%) of the epileptics. The trabecular osteoclastic resorption surfaces and the mean volume of periosteocytic lacunae were increased in 36 (69%) and 45 (75%) patients, respectively. The calcification rate was decreased in relation to what is referred to elsewhere as normal. The bone changes suggest a mineralization defect analogous to osetomalacia with secondary hyperparathyroidism. An increased osteoid volume or thickness and decreased calcification rate were correlated to low dietary vitamin D intake, low exposure to sunlight, high hepatic clearance rate of DPH, combined-drug treatment and the male sex. These parameters should be considered risk factors of anticonvulsant osteomalacia.
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PMID:Anticonvulsant osteomalacia determined by quantitative analysis of bone changes. Population study and possible risk factors. 127 72

Two patients had gangrenous dermal necrosis associated with chronic renal disease and secondary hyperparathyroidism. Thromobosed and heavily calcified small arteries were underlying the infarcted areas. One patient had severe hypotension secondary to hemorrhage, which immediately preceded the appearance of dermal lesions. Both patients had notably elevated serum parathyroid hormone and serum alkaline phosphatase levels, as well as severe hyperphosphatemia. Therapy with phosphate binders and calcium and vitamin D supplementation corrected the hyperphosphatemia and reduced serum alkaline phosphatase levels. One patient died; the other patient's dermal lesions healed completely. Localized thrombosis, rather than obliterative intimal proliferation, represents a unique cause of dermal necrosis in this condition.
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PMID:Derman necrosis due to thrombosis in severe secondary hyperparathyroidism. 127 28

Four patients had symptomless osteomalacia at the time of starting regular haemodialysis. After 21-40 months they became hypophosphataemic and developed disabling skeletal symptoms. In each case an exacerbation of histological osteomalacia was shown. Symptoms improved after measures designed to raise serum inorganic phosphate concentrations or vitamin D administration, or both. Patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis should have their serum phosphate and alkaline phosphatase levels monitored every month. Predialysis phosphate levels below 1 mmol/1 (3 mg/100 ml) and rising serum alkaline phosphatase concentrations are danger signals. If the diagnosis is confirmed early aggressive treatment should be started.
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PMID:Hypophosphataemic osteomalacia in patients receiving haemodialysis. 127 33


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