Data on 36 patients with vitamin-D-resistant rickets indicate that the disease is manifested primarily by shortness of stature. This shortness appears to be limited to the lower extremities.

Of the genetic causes, X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets is most commonly encountered, with a prevalence of 1 in 20 thousand children. Other genetic causes (such as autosomal dominant and ...

A high Tm Pi in hypophosphatemia is indicative of increased renal excretion secondary to a PTH-mediated mechanism, Fanconi syndrome, XLH, autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets or oncogenic ...

My daughter has hypophophatemic rickets. She is 7 years old and was diagnosed 18 months ago, although she had been seeing an orthopaedic surgeon since she was 2 years old. She is on treatment but I ...

Genetic defects can also play a role. Hypophosphatemic rickets, for example, is a genetic disorder where the kidneys and bones deal abnormally with phosphate such that there is too little in the ...

X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets and tumor-associated osteomalacia. Hypophosphatemia had previously been linked to rhabdomyolysis, hemolysis ...