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    Osteomalacia is a disease characterized by the softening of the bones caused by impaired bone metabolism primarily due to inadequate levels of available...
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  • Oncogenic osteomalacia, also known as tumor-induced osteomalacia or oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia, is an uncommon disorder resulting in increased...
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    rickets may also be caused by other maternal diseases, including severe osteomalacia, untreated celiac disease, malabsorption, pre-eclampsia, and premature...
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    with rickets (the childhood form of osteomalacia). Vitamin D supplements are given to treat or to prevent osteomalacia and rickets. The evidence for other...
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    bone-softening diseases, such as rickets in children. It can also worsen osteomalacia and osteoporosis in adults, increasing the risk of bone fractures. Muscle...
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    compromise or vitamin B6 dependent seizures to a milder, progressive osteomalacia later in life. Tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP) deficiency...
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    Axial osteomalacia is a rare osteosclerotic disorder characterized by axial skeleton pain, coarsening of the trabecular bone pattern on radiographs of...
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    X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is an X-linked dominant form of rickets (or osteomalacia) that differs from most cases of dietary deficiency rickets in that vitamin...
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  • acidosis. The loss of phosphate results in the bone diseases rickets and osteomalacia (even with adequate vitamin D and calcium levels), because phosphate...
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  • or hereditary hypophosphatemia may cause the metabolic bone disorder osteomalacia. Although there is currently no treatment for the genetic condition,...
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    commonly responsible for pathological fractures, including osteoporosis, osteomalacia, Paget's disease, Osteitis, osteogenesis imperfecta, benign bone tumours...
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  • besides the categories above: membranous glomerulonephritis, tumor-induced osteomalacia, Stauffer syndrome, Neoplastic fever, and thymoma-associated multiorgan...
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  • and haversian nerve supply seems to play an important role, e.g. in osteomalacia, osteonecrosis, and other bone diseases.[citation needed] Thus, there...
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    disease, low blood calcium due to hypoparathyroidism, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, and familial hypophosphatemia, and can be taken by mouth or by injection...
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    3-bisphosphoglyceric acid. If hypophosphatemia is chronic; rickets in children or osteomalacia in adults may develop. Refeeding syndrome – This causes a demand for...
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  • 2018 for the treatment of X-linked hypophosphatemia and tumor-induced osteomalacia. In the European Union and the United States, burosumab is indicated...
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    "Calcification of entheses associated with X-linked hypophosphatemic osteomalacia". The New England Journal of Medicine. 313 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1056/NEJM198507043130101...
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    of the kidney) Bone demineralisation (causing rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults) Growth deficiency Medullary cysts Sensorineural hearing loss...
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    Muscle cramp from decreased vitamin D, calcium absorption. Also lead to osteomalacia and osteoporosis Bleeding tendencies from vitamin K and other coagulation...
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  • 2) osteitis fibrosa, increased turnover and normal mineralization; 3) osteomalacia, decreased turnover and abnormal mineralization; 4) adynamic, decreased...
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  • development and growth, and when uninhibited, can cause diseases such as osteomalacia. Since calcium-rich bones are exceedingly difficult to study, scientists...
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  • pseudofracture, also called a Looser zone, is a diagnostic finding in osteomalacia. Pseudofracture also rarely occurs in Paget's disease of bone, hyperparathyroidism...
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    Dr. Robert Kienböck, a radiologist in Vienna, Austria who described osteomalacia of the lunate in 1910. It is breakdown of the lunate bone, a carpal bone...
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    temporal gyrus. Aluminium, although rarely, can cause vitamin D-resistant osteomalacia, erythropoietin-resistant microcytic anemia, and central nervous system...
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    mesenchymal neoplasm phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor causing tumor-induced osteomalacia, a paraneoplastic syndrome. Loss of FGF23 activity is thought to lead...
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    diagnosticians as a biomarker in helping determine diagnoses such as hepatitis or osteomalacia. The level of alkaline phosphatase in the blood is checked through the...
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    trigger winter tetany, or grass tetany, in ruminants.[verification needed] Osteomalacia and rickets due to deficiency of vitamin D [verification needed] Metabolic...
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    osteoporosis, in which the bones become less dense and more brittle, or osteomalacia, in which the bones soften. Osteopetrosis can cause bones to dissolve...
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    osteodystrophy Fractured bone Skeletal involvement of other primary diseases: Osteomalacia, rickets, vitamin D deficiency (moderate rise) Malignant tumors (ALP...
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    compounds of ergocalciferol with lumisterol, 1:1 fat 15 μg/15 μg rickets and osteomalacia hypervitaminosis D D2 ergocalciferol fat sunlight-exposed mushrooms and...
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