Single-day therapy for nutritional vitamin D-deficiency rickets: a preferred method.
A single-day large dose of vitamin D (stosstherapy) was given to 42 patients with nutritional vitamin D-deficiency rickets. Stosstherapy is safe and effective, obviates problems with compliance, and, by evoking a response in 4 to 7 days in nutritional rickets, becomes a valuable diagnostic aid for patients in whom initial findings do not clearly distinguish nutritional rickets from familial hypophosphatemic rickets.
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Department of Pediatrics, Children's Medical Center of Brooklyn, New York 11203.
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D000284:Administration, Oral; D002118:Calcium / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002214:Capsules; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004872:Ergocalciferols / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D006962:Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / Q000209:etiology; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000209:etiology; D007015:Hypophosphatemia, Familial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D007223:Infant; D010710:Phosphates / Q000097:blood; D012279:Rickets / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*
D002214:Capsules; D004872:Ergocalciferols; D010710:Phosphates; D014807:Vitamin D; D002118:Calcium