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Osteomalicia is a disorder in which bones soften due to a deficiency of vitamin C. It may have no symptoms in the beginning, but will eventually cause a dull aching pain, usually in the lower back, hips, ribs, legs, and pelvic bones. It will also lead to muscle weakness, stumbling, altered gait, and difficulty performing normal everyday activities.
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What would be typical bone disease symptoms in older patients?
Three of the most common bone diseases in older patients are Osteoporosis, in which the symptoms include suffering a fracture, Paget's Disease, which symptoms include bone or joint pain, and a deformity of the bones or joints, and Osteomalacia, which symptoms are pain in the bone, weakness, fragility, and fractures.
What is difference of rickets and osteomalacia?
rickets are seen in children whereas osteomalacia is softaining of bone in the case of adults
Is osteomalacia life threatening?
Depends on the current condition of the person affiliated with osteomalacia. Osteomalacia means, in latin, Condition of softening of the bones. So your areas of the body where osteomalacia is occurring is weaker and more prone to break easily. Which can lead to disabilty and can be life threatening due to some causes of osteomalacia such as, hypocalcemia or low-blood calcium levels. Hypocalcemia can lead to irregular heart beat and rhythym, which leads to heart failure. Other life-threatening complications can also be associated with osteomalacia.
What is another name for rickets?
Osteomalacia
What is Softening of the bone is termed?
osteomalacia
Is osteomalacia a symptom of hypophosphatemia?
Yes
What does osteomalacia cause?
Soft bones
Which bone is soft bone?
Osteomalacia
What condition is also known as adult rickets?
It is known as Osteomalacia. I know because I have a genetic form of it. For more info you could search for x-linked hypophosphotemia.
A disease in which bones become abnormally soft?
osteomalacia
What disease is called osteomalacia?
suck my big balls
Are osteomalacia osteoporosis and osteopenia the same?
It is not completely the same .
