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syndrome

In medicine, a set of signs and symptoms that always occur together, thus characterizing a particular condition or disorder.



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There are certain health issues that occasionally arise with the three major ones being Basenji enteropathy, Fanconi syndrome, and PRA.
Variants of osteomalacia include vitamin D deficiency, renal tubular acidosis, Fanconi syndrome, vitamin D-dependent rickets types I and II, hypophosphatemic vitamin D-resistant rickets, oncogenic osteomalacia, and hypophosphatasia.
Cadmium, a toxic metallic element, is known to be the cause of Itai-itai Disease, considered to be a type of acquired Fanconi Syndrome characterized by kidney dysfunction and osteomalacia, which plagued a number of people, mainly women, in Toyama Prefecture in the 1950s.
 
 
 
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