The patient was admitted to Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) with severe anemia. What is the diagnosis?
        
     
                                                 Clinical Quiz Answer

 

 Ostepetrosis.
 

A German radiologist, Albers-Schonberg, first described osteopetrosis in 1904. Osteopetrosis is a clinical syndrome characterized by the failure of osteoclasts to resorb bone.
As a consequence, bone modeling and remodeling are impaired. The defect in bone turnover characteristically results in skeletal fragility despite increased bone mass, and it may also cause hematopoitic insufficiency, disturbed tooth eruption, nerve entrapment syndrome, and growth impairment.