Abstract
A single-day large dose of vitamin D (stosstherapy) was given to 42 patients with nutritional vitamin D-deficiency rickets. Stosstherapy is safe and effective, obviates problems with compliance, and, by evoking a response in 4 to 7 days in nutritional rickets, becomes a valuable diagnostic aid for patients in whom initial findings do not clearly distinguish nutritional rickets from familial hypophosphatemic rickets.
MeSH terms
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Administration, Oral
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Calcium / administration & dosage
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Calcium / blood
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Calcium / therapeutic use
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Capsules
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Child
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Child, Preschool
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Drug Administration Schedule
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Ergocalciferols / administration & dosage
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Ergocalciferols / therapeutic use
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Humans
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Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / etiology
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Hypocalcemia / etiology
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Hypophosphatemia, Familial / diagnosis
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Hypophosphatemia, Familial / drug therapy
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Infant
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Phosphates / blood
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Rickets / blood
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Rickets / complications
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Rickets / drug therapy*
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Vitamin D / administration & dosage
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Vitamin D / therapeutic use*
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Vitamin D Deficiency / blood
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Vitamin D Deficiency / complications
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Vitamin D Deficiency / drug therapy*
Substances
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Capsules
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Ergocalciferols
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Phosphates
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Vitamin D
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Calcium