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| Slipped upper femoral epiphysis: Outcome after in situ fixation and capital realignment technique |
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Sujit Kumar Tripathy1, Ramesh Kumar Sen2
1 Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2 Department of Orthopaedics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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| Date of Web Publication | 21-Jan-2014 |
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How to cite this article:
Tripathy SK, Sen RK. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis: Outcome after in situ fixation and capital realignment technique. Indian J Orthop 2014;48:111 |
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Tripathy SK, Sen RK. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis: Outcome after in situ fixation and capital realignment technique. Indian J Orthop [serial online] 2014 [cited 2019 Sep 23];48:111. Available from: http://www.ijoonline.com/text.asp?2014/48/1/111/125538 |
Sir,
We read the article "slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE): outcome after in situ fixation and capital realignment technique" with interest. [1] This study is first of its kind where the outcome of SUFE has been evaluated in Indian children. The authors also found the association of high body mass index, vitamin D deficiency and endocrine disorders in SUFE children. However, we have few concerns about the results of the study.
The authors found mean vitamin D level to be 12.61 ± 5.4 ng/ml with a range from 3.76 to 25.6 ng/ml. There were 20 out of 21 children who were severely vitamin D deficient, but no rachitic changes were evident. As per recent recommendations, in children and adolescents, vitamin D level above 20 ng/ml is considered as sufficient, 15-20 ng/ml as insufficiency, <15 ng/ml as deficient and <5 ng/ml as severely deficient. [2] With the mean value of 12.61 and standard deviation of 5.4, how could it be possible that 20 out of 21 children were severely vitamin D deficient? Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in India in all age groups. In one study, the mean serum concentration of 25(OH) D among North Indian children was found to be 11.8 ± 7.2 ng/ml (below the average value of the present study). [3] The study by Marwaha et al. [4] has shown that adolescents in Delhi from upper and lower socioeconomic groups had mean serum 25(OH) D concentration of 31 nmol/L (equivalent to 12.4 ng/ml). They also found that despite supplementation with 60,000 IU of vitamin D3 (monthly 2000 IU/day or 2 monthly 1000 IU/day), only 47% subjects were vitamin D sufficient at the end of 1 year (mean 25[OH] D level 50.1 nmol/L). We feel that measurement of vitamin D level in healthy children or adolescent (control group) would have better clarified the association of vitamin D deficiency in SUFE. With wide prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in India even in healthy children, is this association of vitamin D deficiency and SUFE a new conception?
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| 1. | Arora S, Dutt V, Palocaren T, Madhuri V. Slipped upper femoral epiphysis: Outcome after in situ fixation and capital realignment technique. Indian J Orthop 2013;47:264-71. 
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| 2. | Misra M, Pacaud D, Petryk A, Collett-Solberg PF, Kappy M, Drug and Therapeutics Committee of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society. Vitamin D deficiency in children and its management: Review of current knowledge and recommendations. Pediatrics 2008;122:398-417.
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| 3. | Marwaha RK, Tandon N, Reddy DR, Aggarwal R, Singh R, Sawhney RC, et al. Vitamin D and bone mineral density status of healthy schoolchildren in northern India. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;82:477-82.
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Correspondence Address:
Sujit Kumar Tripathy
Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar - 751 019, Odisha
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.125538
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| Arora, S., Dutt, V., Palocaren, T., Madhuri, V. | | Indian Journal of Orthopaedics. 2014; 48(1): 111-112 | | [Pubmed] | |
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