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Endocrinologist:
July/August 2008 - Volume 18 - Issue 4 - pp 172-175
doi: 10.1097/TEN.0b013e3181815a9e
Case Report

Multifetal Pregnancy May Increase the Risk for Severe Maternal and Neonatal Vitamin D Deficiency

Nwosu, Benjamin U. MD; Soyka, Leslie A. MD; Angelescu, Amanda MD; Hardy, Olga T. MD; Lee, Mary M. MD

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Abstract

Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in pregnant women. This deficiency could be exaggerated in multifetal pregnancies by the increased demand on maternal stores of vitamin D. We present 2 cases in which hypocalcemia and secondary hyperparathyroidism occurred in 2 sets of twins from mothers with vitamin D deficiency. The first mother had gastric bypass surgery and Crohn disease. The second mother had no apparent cause of vitamin D deficiency. Both women had iron deficiency anemia and lived in Northeastern United States. We speculate that in twins, the demand for 25-hydroxyvitamin D by 2 fetuses could deplete the 25-hydroxyvitamin D stores in a mother.

© 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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