Osteomalacia

Disease/Syndrome
Osteomalacia
Category
Chronic Poisoning
Acute/Chronic
Chronic
Synonyms
Itai-Itai
Biomedical References
Comments
Osteomalacia is one of the adverse effects of chronic cadmium poisoning. Environmental cadmium poisoning from rice contaminated by mining runoff caused "Itai Itai" or "ouch ouch" disease in Japan in the 1970s. These patients, primarily middle aged women, suffered from osteomalacia and pseudofractures secondary to increased losses of urinary calcium and phosphorus. [ATSDR Case Studies # 10]
Latency/Incubation
Years to decades
Diagnostic
X-rays
ICD-9 Code
268.2
ICD-10 Code
M83.9

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