Osteomalacia medical therapy

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:

Overview

Medical Therapy

Nutritional osteomalacia responds well to administration of 10,000 IU weekly of vitamin D for four to six weeks. Osteomalacia due to malabsorption may require treatment by injection or daily oral dosing^[1] of significant amounts of vitamin D.

References

↑ Eisman, John A. (1988). “6 Osteomalacia”. Baillière’s Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2: 125–55. doi:10.1016/S0950-351X(88)80011-9.

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[1] Eisman, John A. (1988). “6 Osteomalacia”. Baillière’s Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2: 125–55. doi:10.1016/S0950-351X(88)80011-9.

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