Metabolic bone disease in preterm infants.

Abstract

Osteopenia' or 'rickets of prematurity' is a condi- tion or group of conditions resulting in reduced bone mineralisation in preterm infants, and leading, in severe cases, to frank radiological rickets and spontaneous fractures. A recent one day workshop in Cambridge, sponsored by the British Paediatric Association's Nutrition Group, was devoted to this disorder. The proceedings are summarised in this article.