Misdiagnosis of Hidden Causes of Rickets

Underlying conditions list:

The list of possible underlying conditions mentioned in various sources for Rickets includes:

• Vitamin D deficiency
• Inadequate sunlight exposure
• Dietary deficiency of Vitamin D
• Malabsorption
• Kidney disease
• Calcium malabsorption
• Dent's disease - rickets
• Phenytoin
• Cystinosis
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal - rickets
• Hereditary primary Fanconi disease - rickets
• Fanconi renotubular syndrome - rickets
• Childhood hypophosphatasia - rickets
• Bile acid synthesis defect, congenital, 2 - rickets
• Bartter's syndrome, antenatal type 1 - rickets
• Hypophosphataemia
• Infantile hypophosphatasia - rickets
• Bartters syndrome, antenatal , type 2 - rickets
• Renal failure, chronic
• Toni-Fanconi syndrome type 1 - rickets
• Hypophosphatemic rickets - rickets
• Etidronate
• Nephropathic early-onset cystinosis
• Sarrouy disease - rickets
• Pseudophosphatasia - rickets
• Avitaminosis - rickets
• Adult hypophosphatasia - childhood rickets
• X-linked hypophosphataemia
• Ethotoin
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 1 - rickets
• Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome - rickets
• Autosomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets
• Proximal renal tubular acidosis
• Hypophosphatasia
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal -- type I - rickets
• McCune-Albright Syndrome - rickets
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 2 - rickets
• Malabsorption syndrome
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal -- type III - rickets
• Renal tubular acidosis progressive nerve deafness - rickets
• Renal osteodystrophy - rickets
• Lightwood-Albright syndrome - rickets
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 3 - rickets
• Bile acid synthesis defects - rickets
• Baber's syndrome - rickets
• Hypokalaemic distal renal tubular acidosis
• Vitamin D dependent rickets type 2a
• Nephrolithiasis type 1 - rickets
• Fanconi syndrome - rickets
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 4 - rickets
• Bartter Syndrome - rickets
• Glutethimide
• Vitamin D dependent rickets type 1
• Nephrolithiasis type 2 - rickets
• Dent syndrome - rickets
• Renal Tubular Acidosis - rickets
• Oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia - rickets
• Manz syndrome - rickets
• Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome - rickets
• Hypophosphatemia, Familial - rickets
• Acid phosphatase deficiency - rickets
• Wilson's disease

Other underlying conditions related to Rickets:

• Alkaline phosphatase bone isoenzyme levels raised (plasma or serum)
• Birth hypoxia
• Bone pain
• Dystocia
• Foetal malposition
• Genu valgum
• Genu varum
• Hypocalcaemia
• Hypophosphataemia
• Myopathy
• Osteopenia
• Paresthesiae
• Pathological fracture
• Perinatal morbidity
• Periosteal reaction
• Proximal muscle weakness
• Proximal myopathy
• Sabre tibia
• Schmorl's nodes
• Short stature
• Skull bossing

Source: Diseases Database

Rickets as a complication:

Other conditions that might have Rickets as a complication might be potential underlying conditions. The list of conditions listing Rickets as a complication includes:

• Bile acid synthesis defect, congenital, 4
• Dent syndrome
• Dent's disease
• McCune-Albright Syndrome
• Nephrolithiasis type 1
• Nephrolithiasis type 2
• Renal tubular acidosis progressive nerve deafness
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal -- type I
• Renal tubular acidosis, distal -- type III

Rickets as a symptom:

Conditions listing Rickets as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions.

For a more detailed analysis of Rickets as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Rickets.

• Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome
• Acid phosphatase deficiency
• Avitaminosis
• Baber's syndrome
• Bartter Syndrome
• Bartter's syndrome, antenatal type 1
• Bartters syndrome, antenatal , type 2
• Bile acid synthesis defect, congenital, 2
• Bile acid synthesis defects
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 1
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 2
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 3
• Bile acid synthesis defects, congenital, 4
• Childhood hypophosphatasia
• Fanconi renotubular syndrome
• Fanconi syndrome
• Hereditary primary Fanconi disease
• Hypophosphatemia, Familial
• Hypophosphatemic rickets
• Infantile hypophosphatasia
• Lightwood-Albright syndrome
• Lowe oculocerebrorenal syndrome
• Lowe Syndrome
• Manz syndrome
• McCune-Albright Syndrome
• Oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia
• Pseudophosphatasia
• Renal osteodystrophy
• Renal Tubular Acidosis
• Renal tubulopathy -- diabetes mellitus -- cerebellar ataxia
• Sarrouy disease
• Toni-Fanconi syndrome type 1
• Vitamin D deficiency

About underlying conditions:

With a diagnosis of Rickets, it is important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Rickets. These are other medical conditions that may possibly cause Rickets. For general information on this form of misdiagnosis, see Underlying Condition Misdiagnosis or Overview of Misdiagnosis.

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