منابع مشابه
Osteoporosis in childhood.
Osteoporosis is defined as 'too little normal bone', the disorder being rarer in children than adults. The varied forms in childhood can be classified as those secondary to some other disease and primary forms of the disorder which include the genetically determined osteogenesis imperfecta types and idiopathic forms of osteoporosis. A plea is made for greater clinical application in attempting ...
متن کامل[Osteoporosis in childhood and adolescence].
OBJECTIVE To review recent data concerning osteoporosis and osteopenia in childhood and adolescence, focusing on diagnosis, prevention and treatment. SOURCES OF DATA Literature review of Medline and Lilacs databases (1992 to 2002). SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Childhood osteoporosis is defined and classified. Imaging and laboratory diagnostic techniques are emphasized, as well as prevention and ...
متن کامل[Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in childhood].
The authors review osteoporosis definition, the techniques to quantify bone mass, the assessment of therapy efficacy and the drugs used to manage osteoporosis in paediatric ages.
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Osteoporosis will become a large-scale global health issue as the world's population continues to age. In their article, Delmas and Fraser present a compelling argument describing the potential health crisis the world will face if osteoporosis is not made a high priority by the world health community. They estimate that the worldwide lifetime risk for osteoporotic fractures is as high as 40% in...
متن کاملTreatment of childhood osteoporosis – current and future perspectives
Bisphosphonates are the mainstay of medical therapy in the fracturing child with osteoporosis. The majority of the data in children pertains to intravenous pamidronate use in children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), where pamidronate has been associated with improvements in bone mineral density, cortical thickness, vertebral shape, pain, mobility and height [1]. Sideeffects o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1658-3612
DOI: 10.1016/s1658-3612(11)70168-8