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Elevated plasma 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D concentrations in infants with hypercalcemia and an elfin facies.

Abstract
We measured plasma concentrations of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-(OH)2D) in the course of a 6-to-37-month survey of four children with hypercalcemia and an elfin facies (Williams syndrome). Levels of 1,25-(OH)2D were elevated (160 to 470 pg per milliliter) during the hypercalcemic phase of the disease, when the children were five to nine months old, and they decreased thereafter. Plasma 1,25 (OH)2D levels were higher than those found in three children (16 to 60 months old) with the elfin facies syndrome and no hypercalcemia (42 to 71 pg per milliliter) and eight children (1 to 36 months old) with hypercalcemia and no dysmorphy (12 to 140 pg per milliliter), including two children with vitamin D intoxication. Hypercalcemia in the three children with elfin facies was controlled by a low-calcium diet. Serum calcium levels fell to the normal range, and plasma 1,25-(OH)2D levels were normal for age (18 to 105 pg per milliliter) at 14 to 47 months of age, even after appropriate therapy had been discontinued. These observations suggest that hypercalcemia may be the consequence of abnormal synthesis or degradation of 1,25-(OH)2D in children with the elfin facies syndrome.
AuthorsM Garabédian, E Jacqz, H Guillozo, R Grimberg, M Guillot, M F Gagnadoux, M Broyer, G Lenoir, S Balsan
JournalThe New England journal of medicine (N Engl J Med) Vol. 312 Issue 15 Pg. 948-52 (Apr 11 1985) ISSN: 0028-4793 [Print] United States
PMID3838365 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Calcium, Dietary
  • Dihydroxycholecalciferols
  • Vitamin D
  • Calcitriol
  • Calcium
Topics
  • Calcitriol (blood)
  • Calcium (blood)
  • Calcium, Dietary (administration & dosage)
  • Child, Preschool
  • Dihydroxycholecalciferols (blood)
  • Facial Expression
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypercalcemia (blood, diet therapy)
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Syndrome
  • Vitamin D (metabolism)

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