The Osteoporotic Syndrome: Detection, Prevention, and Treatment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0120687054 ISBN 13: 9780120687053

Publisher: Academic Press, 2000

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Louis V. Avioli, M.D. is widely regarded as the leading authority on osteoporosis and calcium metabolism. His distinguished career as a clinician, academician, and practicing endocrinologist covers more than 30 years of service. He is the founder and past president of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and the founder and current president of the Association of Osteobiology. He is currently the Shoenberg Professor of Medicine, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and director of the Division on Bones and Mineral Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine.

From the Back Cover

Metabolic bone degeneration (osteoporosis) affects millions of people and is directly responsible for debilitating hip, vertebral, and limb fractures in the elderly. The magnitude of the osteoporosis problem has been realized in recent years, and the value of early detection and therapeutic intervention has become clear. The Osteoporotic Syndrome incorporates the latest developments in epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment and serves as an up-to-date, practical guide to the major clinical aspects of osteoporosis.
Many of the leading experts in the field have contributed to the Fourth Edition of this successful text. Topics covered include the effects of genetics and aging, biochemical markers of bone turnover, bone mass measurement techniques, bone biopsy, orthopedic surgery, and medical management with estrogens, calcium, vitamin D, and bisphosphonates. The Osteoporotic Syndrome has been updated to include the latest clinical and research data and is liberally illustrated with detailed figures. Clinicians dealing with metabolic bone degeneration will find this book provides valuable information on the diagnosis and day-to-day management of osteoporosis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0120687054
• ISBN 13: 9780120687053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Avioli Louis V.