[Updates on rickets and osteomalacia: vitamin D dependency].

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Vitamin D dependency was first termed for patients resembling vitamin D-deficiency but require high doses of vitamin D administration. Now this disease is known to be caused by defective conversion of 25OHD to 1,25 (OH) 2D, which is termed vitamin D-dependent rickets type 1 or 1α-hydroxylase deficiency, or by end-organ unresponsiveness to 1,25 (OH) 2D, which is called vitamin D-dependent rickets type 2 or...

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