Shoji Yoshimatsu, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Md Iqbal Hossain, Md Munirul Islam, Takashi Fukushima, Yukiko Wagatsuma, Jonathan Harvey Smith, Ryo Sumazaki, Tahmeed Ahmed
Phosphorus is an essential substance in our body, and hypophosphataemia (HP) is well-described in rickets, refeeding syndrome, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and in chronic alcohol-abuse. However, to our knowledge, HP among severely-malnourished children has not been studied in detail, and information on prevalence, severity, and treatment is scarce. Currently, there are only a few published case reports of HP. This case series describes three cases of HP that presented to Dhaka Hospital of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)...
December 2012: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition