Ultraviolet irradiation for hepatic rickets.
An infant with chronic cytomegalovirus hepatitis and a child with atypical Alagille's syndrome had vitamin D deficiency rickets due to malabsorption. Both received ultraviolet irradiation. This treatment corrected biochemical abnormalities and healed the rickets. In the infant use of a sunlamp at home maintained normal 25 hydroxy-vitamin D for over a year. Our study shows that ultraviolet irradiation is an effective treatment of hepatobiliary rickets.
Kooh
S W
SW
Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Roberts
E A
EA
Fraser
D
D
Curtis
J
J
Jones
G
G
Weber
J L
JL
Reilly
B J
BJ
D002648:Child; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006505:Hepatitis / Q000150:complications*; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012279:Rickets / Q000209:etiology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D014467:Ultraviolet Therapy