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The Osteoporotic Syndrome

The Osteoporotic Syndrome

Louis V. Avioli

(2000)

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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