Acute Vitamin D Toxicity in an Infant

We report vitamin D toxicity in an infant following consecutive administration use of a large dose of vitamin D, causing symptomatic hypercalcemia, which was successfully managed with injectable calcitonin. However, the child developed bilateral medullary nephrocalcinosis which persisted 42 mon afte...

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Autores principales: Khadgawat, Rajesh, Goswami, Ravinder, Gupta, Nandita, Seith, Asu, Mehta, Ajay Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24790352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1297/cpe.16.89
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Sumario:We report vitamin D toxicity in an infant following consecutive administration use of a large dose of vitamin D, causing symptomatic hypercalcemia, which was successfully managed with injectable calcitonin. However, the child developed bilateral medullary nephrocalcinosis which persisted 42 mon after the initial episode.

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