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    Diagnosis of Rickets from Pneumonia
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    Case Report
    VOLUME: 5 ISSUE: 2
    P: 89-92
    August 2018

    Diagnosis of Rickets from Pneumonia

    J Pediatr Emerg Intensive Care Med 2018;5(2):89-92
    DOI: 10.4274/cayd.62681
    Osman Yeşilbaş 1
    Nazan Ülgen Tekerek 1
    Ülkü Gül Şiraz 2
    Serhat Tekerek 3
    Mevlüt Salim 4
    1. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Van Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Yoğun Bakım Ünitesi, Van, Türkiye
    2. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Van Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Endokrinolojisi Kliniği, Van, Türkiye
    3. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Van Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Radyoloji Kliniği, Van, Türkiye
    4. Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Van Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Kliniği, Van, Türkiye
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    Received Date: 08.08.2017
    Accepted Date: 22.10.2017
    Publish Date: 03.08.2018
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    ABSTRACT

    Rickets is a group of diseases presenting with decreased growth rate and skeletal deformities due to diminished endochondral calcification. Despite vitamin D supplementation programs, nutritional rickets is an important public health problem in developing countries. Lower respiratory tract infections and nutritional rickets associated with vitamin D deficiency are both common in children younger than five years of age. Studies especially in developing countries have shown the association between nutritional rickets and lower respiratory tract infections. In this paper, we report a patient with nutritional rickets who was referred with pneumonia and discuss rickets-pneumonia association in the light of the literature.

    Keywords: Vitamin D, pneumonia, rickets

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