This study was conducted to determine the causes and clinical presentations of
osteomalacia/rickets in adolescents seen at the King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) …

Background. The adolescent age group is particularly prone to nutritional
rickets/osteomalacia due to an increased demand for nutrients, especially calcium and …

Objective To review experiences of nutritional rickets and osteomalacia in school children
and adolescents at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia …

This is a retrospective study in which we report our clinical experience during the period
from January 1990 to December 2009, from a paediatric endocrine clinic at King Khalid …

Defective mineralization of the growth plate and preformed osteoid result in rickets and
osteomalacia, respectively. The leading cause of rickets worldwide is solar vitamin D …

Osteomalacia is a metabolic bone disease frequently seen by rheumatologists. The primary
defect in this disorder lies in inadequate mineralization of normally formed osteoid leading to …

Backgroud: Hypocalcemia can be defined as a state when serum calcium level is less than 7
mg/dl in preterm neonates and less than 8 mg/dl in term neonates and less than 8.5 mg/dl in …

Rickets and osteomalacia are disorders of calcification characterized by defects of bone and
cartilage mineralization during growth, and bone mineralization in adults, respectively. The …

Nutrition-acquired osteomalacia is a bone mineralization disorder associated with dietary
calcium and/or solar vitamin D deficiency, risk factors considered common in the Middle …

Renal involvement in Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is not uncommon and may precede other
complaints. Tubulointerstitial nephritis is the most common renal disease in SS and may …