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 after the initial episode.
Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Rajesh
R
Khadgawat
Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Ravinder
R
Goswami
Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Nandita
N
Gupta
Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Asu
A
Seith
Department of Pediatrics, Sundar Lal Jain Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Ajay Prakash
AP
Mehta
infants; nephrocalcinosis; vitamin D deficiency; vitamin D toxicity