title: Ultraviolet irradiation for hepatic rickets.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kooh
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Curtis
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Reilly
mesh_terms: 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