Ameer Ahmad, Abdul Rehman.
Case report of an infant with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (III).
Pak Paed J Jan ;31(4):215-7.

We report a case of osteogenesis imperfecta type III in a 3 month old male child born to consanguous couple . Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is disorder with congenital bone fragility, caused by mutations in the genes that codify for type I procollagen . Medical management of OI, with the exception of bisphosphonates, has been largely unsuccessful.

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