INTRODUCTION Undertreatment of osteoporosis is common, even for high-risk patients. Among the reasons for undertreatment may be a clinician's perception of a lack of treatment benefit, particularly in light of patients' expected future mortality. Among US Medicare beneficiaries, we evaluated the risk for second fracture versus death in the 5 years following a hip, clinical vertebral, and wrist/...

Background: Osteoporotic compression vertebral fractures are common clinical problems. In those with refractory fractures, percutaneous cement augmentation has been suggested. The aim of this study was to evaluate the functional outcome of percutaneous vertebroplasty in Iranian patients with refractory osteoporotic fractures. Methods: We retrospectively studied 37 osteoporotic fractures in 28 p...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between a new osteoporotic vertebral fracture and instrumented lumbar arthrodesis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE In contrast to the growing recognition of the importance of adjacent segment disease after lumbar arthrodesis, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between osteoporotic vertebral fractures an...

Introduction: to investigate prevalence and underlying risk factors for vertebral fractures in male geriatric outpatients on radiographs of the thoracolumbar spine. Methods: 176 men, mean age 80 years, first‐time visiting a geriatric day hospital, underwent a comprehensive geriatric assessment, routine laboratory investigation and lateral X‐rays of the chest and lumbar spine. The presence of ve...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of bisphosphonates for osteoporotic fracture has been consistently reported in recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) enrolling hundreds of patients. The objective of this study was to update knowledge on the efficacy of available bisphosphonates in the prevention of vertebral and non-vertebral fractures. METHODS An approach "using systematic reviews" on PubMed and...

radiology and imaging data of patient is the main and the most important data of the patient. not only it shows disease of patient, but also it is included of the body geometry such as 2d and 3d. gathering and saving of radiology images and data for different patients can be useful for future statistic studies. many questions like, how to, why, in which and etc can be answered by statistic meth...

Fractures at the thoracolumbar junction are the most common spinal column fractures. Among type C fractures in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen Spine Classification, cases with complete fracture-dislocations of the spinal column often result in a critical neurological deficit despite surgical treatment. We present a case of an 18-year-old man who had a complete fracture-dislocati...

The purpose of the present study was to determine the associations of age and history of non- and low-traumatic fractures with the severity of abdominal aortic calcification in Japanese postmenopausal women and men. Four hundred and one Japanese persons (24 men and 377 postmenopausal women, mean age: 73.8 years) for whom thoracic and lumbar spine radiographs had been obtained to evaluate their ...

As the worldwide population ages, the population prevalence of osteoporosis is also increasing. About 30% of postmenopausal women in Europe and the United States have osteoporosis and it is estimated that over 40% of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in Europe and the United States will experience at least one fragility fracture (1). A worldwide estimate for new osteoporotic fractures in 2...

background: osteoporotic compression vertebral fractures are common clinical problems. in those with refractory fractures, percutaneous cement augmentation has been suggested. the aim of this study was to evaluate the functional outcome of percutaneous vertebroplasty in iranian patients with refractory osteoporotic fractures. methods: we retrospectively studied 37 osteoporotic fractures in 28 p...