Rickets

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A PHEX gene mutation is responsible for adult-onset vitamin D-resistant hypophosphatemic osteomalacia: evidence that the disorder is not a distinct entity from X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. 
  • Azotemic renal osteodystrophy. 
  • Coupling fibroblast growth factor 23 production and cleavage: iron deficiency, rickets, and kidney disease. 
  • Craniosynostosis and rickets. 
  • Healing of bone disease in X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets/osteomalacia. Induction and maintenance with phosphorus and calcitriol. 
  • Human vitamin D receptor mutations: identification of molecular defects in hypocalcemic vitamin D resistant rickets. 
  • Hypophosphatemic rickets in opsismodysplasia. 
  • Newer knowledge of vitamin D and its metabolites in health and disease. 
  • Normal calcitonin stimulation of serum calcitriol in patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. 
  • Parathyroid hormone effects on serum 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels in patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets: evidence for abnormal 25-hydroxyvitamin D-1-hydroxylase activity. 
  • The concurrence of hypoparathyroidism provides new insights to the pathophysiology of X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. 
  • The efficacy of vitamin D2 and oral phosphorus therapy in X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets and osteomalacia. 
  • X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets without "rickets". 
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  Keywords of People

  • Adkins, Deanna Wilson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Endocrinology