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Osteomalacia medical therapy

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Overview

Overview

Medical Therapy

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

References

  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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