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
