Acute Vitamin D Toxicity in an Infant |
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| Authors: | Rajesh Khadgawat Ravinder Goswami Nandita Gupta Asu Seith Ajay Prakash Mehta |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India;2. Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India;3. Department of Pediatrics, Sundar Lal Jain Hospital, New Delhi, India |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
We report vitamin D toxicity in an infant following consecutive administration use of alarge dose of vitamin D, causing symptomatic hypercalcemia, which was successfully managedwith injectable calcitonin. However, the child developed bilateral medullarynephrocalcinosis which persisted 42 mon after the initial episode. |
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| Keywords: | vitamin D deficiency vitamin D toxicity infants nephrocalcinosis |
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