In message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Stromberg <peter.stromb
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>We have a thin 6 year old girl with Downs syndrome who has an alk phos of 11,670
>u/l ( reference range for growing child <900 .PNP methodology.). It is likely
>that she has coeliac disease. All her other LFT,s are normal.I can just remember
>seeing this before in the Lancet where it was described in ?Japan as an
>inherited anomaly of no clinical consequence.Anybody know anything about this
>subject?
Sounds like transient hyperphosphataemia of childhood. Sidney Rosalki described
it in Clin Chem some time ago.
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Paul Collinson
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