ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Nutritional disorders
Undernutrition
5B57 — Vitamin D deficiency
5B57.0 — Vitamin D deficiency rickets

ICD-11 5B57.0 — Vitamin D deficiency rickets

Rickets is a disease of growing bone that is due to unmineralized matrix at the growth plates and occurs in children only before fusion of the epiphyses. There are many causes of rickets, including vitamin D disorders, calcium deficiency, phosphorous deficiency, and distal renal tubular acidosis. With the increased survival rate of very low birthweight infants, rickets in this age group has become a significant problem.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.