Hypophosphataemic Osteomalacia with Complete Recovery
Hypophosphataemic Osteomalacia with Complete Recovery
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低磷血症性骨软化症完全康复
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.1.5399.1672-a
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发表时间:
1964
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通讯作者:
M. Friedman
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作者:
C. Dent;M. Friedman
The original description of resistant rickets associated with hypophosphataemia was derived from detailed studies on a 16-year-old boy with a 14-year history of rickets (Albright, Butler, and Bloomberg, 1937). The bone disease in this patient failed to respond to a dose of vitamin D adequate to cure classical dietary rickets. Healing of the rickets was eventually obtained by the administration of enormous doses, 450,000 IU (11.25 mg.), of vitamin D daily. This study gave rise to the concept of" vitamin D resistance" occurring in certain types of rickets.In the course of the past 25 years numerous studies have been made on this type of patient, and it is clearthat a group of related diseases are involved. It has been shown that hypo-phosphataemia associated with normocalcaemia and a raised alkaline phosphatase was characteristic of the plasma biochemistry, no other biochemical abnormalities being present. Of particular importance has been the demonstration of a lowered renal phosphate threshold in this disease, which has led to suggestions that the disease may be primarily one of a specific renal tubular dysfunction (Robertson, Harris, and McCune, 1942), although the possibility of its being due to a form of secondary hyperparathyroidism is by no means yet excluded. Additional evidence for the tubular concept has been forth-coming with the recognition that hypophosphataemic rickets could be associated with various other tubular defects, some of these abnormalities being genetically determined. These facts led to an attempt to classify this group of diseases on the basis of the disorder of renal tubular function present (Dent, 1952; Fanconi and Girardet, 1952; Jackson and Linder, 1953; Fraser and Slater, 1958). The importance of distinguishing the various types lies in the fact that they may have a different treatment and prognosis. It was also to be expected that further permutations and combinations of tubular defects would be met in clinical practice. We have, for instance, recently studied two patients with rickets and a renal tubular defect for thereabsorp-tion of calcium, phosphate, amino-acids, and protein (Dent and Friedman, 1964), a combination of renal tubularabnormalities not included in any of the original classifications. The commonest form of hypophosphataemic rickets manifests itself usually between 6 months and 2 years of age. Male children are more severely affected than females and an auto-somal sex-linked gene can be implicated to explain the strong hereditary pattern of the disease (Winters, Graham, Williams, McFalls, and Burnett, 1958). However, approximately one-third of cases present without a family history of the disease and are believed to be due to a gene mutation (Dent and Harris, 1956; Burnett, Dent, Harper, and Warland, 1964). Patients diagnosed in adolescence and adulthood can usually give a history of some features of the disease going back to childhood. For instance, they are likely to show dwarfism with typical rachitic deformities and marked relative shortening of the long bones. Renal function is normal except that a high clearance for phosphate can be demonstrated. In contrast to the above commonest form of resistant rickets, some authors have described a further variant distinguishable by