Anemia Associated with Vitamin D Intoxication

Autor: William B. Scharfman, Simon Propp
Rok vydání: 1956
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Zdroj: New England Journal of Medicine. 255:1207-1212
ISSN: 1533-4406
0028-4793
DOI: 10.1056/nejm195612272552601
Popis: THE clinical picture of vitamin D intoxication has been described in detail by a number of observers.1 , 2 Particular emphasis has been given to renal failure and metastatic calcification, with attention also to the laboratory abnormalities present. The importance of establishing the diagnosis, in view of the frequent reversibility of the condition with proper therapy, has also been stressed. This report concerns 4 patients who were seen primarily because of unexplained anemias that were refractory to the usual therapeutic agents and for which there was no apparent etiology. When the specific history of vitamin D intake was obtained the entire clinical . . .
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