Two Siblings With Vitamin-D-Dependent Rickets Type II: No Recurrence Of Rickets For 14 Years After Cessation Of Therapy

October 1989 in “ European Journal of Pediatrics ”

Eiji Takeda, Ichiro Yokota, Ikuo Kawakami, Tadashi Hashimoto, Yuichi Kuroda, Seiji Arase

TLDR Two siblings stayed rickets-free for 14 years after stopping treatment.

The document described two siblings with vitamin-D-dependent rickets type II who did not experience a recurrence of rickets for 14 years after stopping therapy. This suggests that long-term remission is possible in such cases, even after the cessation of treatment.

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