Abstract

Metabolic bone degeneration (osteoporosis) affects millions of people--primarily postmenopausal women--and is directly responsible for debilitating hip, vertebral, and limb fractures in the elderly. Incorporating advances made within just the past five years, The Osteoporotic Syndrome: Detection, Prevention, and Treatment serves as an up-to-date, practical guide to the major clinical aspects of osteoporosis. The text is liberally illustrated with detailed figures. As a resource for the clinician dealing with metabolic bone degeneration, this book represents an excellent source of information on the diagnosis and day-to-day management of osteoporosis.

• Topics covered include:
• Therapy with Vitamin D metabolites, sodium fluoride, thiazides, and isoflavones
• Biochemical markers of bone turnover
• Calcium, Vitamin D, and bone metabolism
• Estrogens and tissue selective estrogens for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis
• The effects of osteoporosis on orthopaedic surgery
• The therapy of glucocorticoid bone disease
• Effects of aging on bone structure and metabolism
• Management of osteoporotic patients in our health care delivery system
• The genetics of osteoporosis
• Bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis
• Calcitonin
• Bone mass measurement techniques in clinical practice
• Osteoporosis and the bone biopsy