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Inherited Defects of Vitamin D Metabolism

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Vitamin D

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The absence of biologic effects of vitamin D, resulting from deficient synthesis, dietary intake, or lack of activation of vitamin D (or to resistance to the biologic effects of the active metabolite), presents primarily with signs and symptoms that reflect impaired intestinal calcium absorption. These include signs and symptoms of neuromuscular irritability, including tetany and seizures, which are a direct result of the hypocalcemia. Long-standing deficiency of, or resistance to vitamin D metabolites leads to impaired bone mineralization as a result of calcium and phosphate deficiency. In the growing skeleton, growth plate abnormalities known as rickets are also observed (see Chapter 18). Secondary hyperparathyroidism is also observed, due to the hypocalcemia and the lack of antiproliferative and antitranscriptional effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D on the parathyroid glands (see Chapter 13).

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Demay, M. (1999). Inherited Defects of Vitamin D Metabolism. In: Holick, M.F. (eds) Vitamin D. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2861-3_18

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