Rickets

Rickets
Cases and Description

Maryam Razzaghy Azar, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics & Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Iran University of Medical Sciences

Hazrat Aliasghar Hospital 

Clinical Manifestations of Rickets
General

• Failure to thrive
• Listlessness
• Protruding abdomen
• Muscle weakness (especially proximal)
• Fractures

Clinical Manifestations
Bone deformities

• Growth plate cartilage and osteoid continue

     to expand

• Mineralization is inadequate
  • Growth plate thickens
  • Bone width Increasing at metaphysis
  • Widening of the wrists and ankles

General softening of the bones à easy bending easily when subject to forces such as weight bearing or muscle pull.

BACK

• • Scoliosis
  • Kyphosis
  • Lordosis