Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Levine MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7303887 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in pediatrics 20200612
The term "vitamin D dependent rickets" describes a group of genetic disorders that are characterized by early-onset rickets due to the inability to maintain adequate concentrations of active forms of vitamin D or a failure to respond fully to activated vitamin D. Although the term is now admittedly a pathophysiological misnomer, there remains clinical relevance for its continued use, as patients have a lifelong "dependency" on administration of specialized regimens of vitamin D replacement. This ...[more]