低リン血症性疾患の病因と病態

Disorders of Phosphate Metabolism. Pathogenesis of hypophosphatemia.

　慢性低リン血症は筋骨格系に障害をもたらす臨床的に重要な病態である。患者の症状は下肢の疼痛や筋力低下など非特異的なものであり，低リン血症性疾患を正しく理解しておくことが大切である。

　Chronic hypophosphatemia is seriously involved in several disorders of musculoskeletal system. Symptoms of patients are usually non-specific, such as pain with or without muscle weakness on lower extremities and are often hard to be correctly diagnosed. It is clinically important for physicians to understand pathogenesis and clinical features of hypophosphatemia and its related diseases.