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Basic Science | Rickets

The Orthobullets Podcast

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The Different Types of Vitamin D Dependent Ricketts

The excellent dominant form of vitamin D resistant Ricketts or hypophosphatemic Ricketts tends to have normal calcium, decrease in serum phosphate, and an increase in alkaline phosphatase. Other findings can include codfish vertebrae and cat-back otherwise known as dorsal kyphosis. As far as other studies to obtain serum labs are crucial for diagnosis.

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