To ameliorate corticosteroid-induced bone injury, we administered etidronic acid plus alfacalcidol to five steroid-dependent asthmatics for 4 years and monitored therapeutic responses in ...

For calculation of the medication costs for oral alfacalcidol and calcitriol, we assumed a daily dosage of 0.5 μg/day, and an intravenous alfacalcidol dose of 1.5μg three times a week ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease and secondary hyperparathyroidism are often treated with alfacalcidol (1-α-hydroxycholecalciferol), ideally on the background of correcting any vitamin D ...

Phosphate was aggressively replaced, and alfacalcidol was initiated to circumvent the effects of FGF23 on her kidneys and bone minerals. The tumour was biopsied and then definitively resected via ...

Alfacalcidol related to vitamin D used as a supplementation for treating vitamin D deficiencies such as osteomalacia and rickets. It helps to treat low calcium level in the blood and bone ...

The patient was receiving replacement therapy with levothyroxin 100 µg/day, calcium carbonate 2 gr/day, cholecalciferol 1600 IU/day, alfacalcidol 2 µg/day, po. The patient remained stable for several ...

Alfacalcidol related to vitamin D used as a supplementation for treating vitamin D deficiencies such as osteomalacia and rickets. It helps to treat low calcium level in the blood and bone ...

8 Calcitriol and alfacalcidol, the most widely used VDRAs, suppress PTH effectively in patients with stages 2–5 CKD, but unfortunately these agents frequently induce hypercalcemia and ...

During the study, Japan experienced serious supply shortages of both alfacalcidol and eldecalcitol. In Japan, unlike Western countries, cholecalciferol cannot be prescribed alone. Instead, only ...

4 Institute of rheumatology, Head of Institute of rheumatology, Belgrade, Serbia Background The superiority of the treatment of osteoporosis (OP), using the combination of alendronate (ALN) and ...