Osteomalacia and osteoporosis: evaluation of a diagnostic index.

Osteomalacia--a common disease in elderly women.

Osteomalacia is not generally regarded as a common disease in western countries and the condition consequently receives scant treatment in many of the standard medical textbooks. It is well recognised as a complication of intestinal malabsorption, gastric surgery and renal tubular defects, and most of the cases reported from Europe and the United States fall into these categories. Dietary defic...

Chapter 1 Ambulatory office practice Osteoporosis Tamara

Osteoporosis is asymptomatic until a fracture occurs; making the diagnosis and initiating treatment in the presymptomatic stage may prevent fractures. Measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) is a good but not perfect predictor of fractures. Introduction of the FRAX tool, which combines clinical risk factors and BMD, has improved assessment of fracture risk and therapeutic decision making. Sec...

The cutoff of ferritin for evaluation of osteoporosis in patients with Thalassemia Major: A cross-sectional analytic study

Background: This study aimed to assess cutoff of ferritin for evaluation of osteoporosis in patients with Thalassemia Major (TM). Materials and Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was conducted in17 Shahrivar children's hospital, Rasht, Iran, from November 2017 to November 2018. The inclusion criteria were indicated as the presence of  TM in patients aged 12-19 years old with records ...

Clinical, biochemical, and histological studies of osteomalacia, osteoporosis, and parathyroid function in chronic liver disease.

Twenty of 32 patients with either chronic cholestatic or hepatocellular liver disease had bone pain or recent fractures. On bone biopsy five patients had normal bone, 15 had osteomalacia, five had osteoporosis, and seven had a combination of osteomalacia and osteoporosis. In the presence of osteoporosis, osteomalacia was minimal or absent. There was no biochemical, radiological, or histological...

The Study of Osteoporosis and Osteomalacia.