rickets, refractory
rickets, refractory, or vitamin D resistant rickets that does not respond to normal amounts of vitamin D but requires massive doses. Usually a result of a congenital defect in the vitamin D receptor, or metabolism of the vitamin; it can also be due to poisoning with strontium.
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