RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Ultraviolet irradiation for hepatic rickets.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 617
OP 619
DO 10.1136/adc.64.4.617
VO 64
IS 4
A1 S W Kooh
A1 E A Roberts
A1 D Fraser
A1 J Curtis
A1 G Jones
A1 J L Weber
A1 B J Reilly
YR 1989
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/64/4/617.abstract
AB An infant with chronic cytomegalovirus hepatitis and a child with atypical Alagille's syndrome had vitamin D deficiency rickets due to malabsorption. Both received ultraviolet irradiation. This treatment corrected biochemical abnormalities and healed the rickets. In the infant use of a sunlamp at home maintained normal 25 hydroxy-vitamin D for over a year. Our study shows that ultraviolet irradiation is an effective treatment of hepatobiliary rickets.