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Section 04 of 07

Treatment

Continuation of burosumab during pregnancy in a patient with X-linked hypophosphatemia

Atsushi Suzuki, Yoshinori Moriyama, Haruo Mizuno, and Haruki Nishizawa · 2026

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Section 04 of 07

  1. 01Introduction
  2. 02Case presentation
  3. 03Diagnostic assessment
  4. 04Treatment
  5. 05Outcome and follow-up
  6. 06Discussion
  7. 07Learning points
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Work overview

Section 4 of 7

Treatment

Atsushi Suzuki, Yoshinori Moriyama, Haruo Mizuno, and Haruki Nishizawa · about 1 minutes

After extensive discussions of limited burosumab safety data during pregnancy, the potential for transplacental drug transfer, and the uncertain fetal effects depending on the inheritance of the PHEX variant, a shared decision was made to continue burosumab at the same dose (50 mg every 4 weeks) throughout pregnancy with close maternal and fetal monitoring; conventional therapy was not reintroduced.