Osteoporosis and osteomalacia - clinical and diagnostic problems

Osteomalacia and osteoporosis: evaluation of a diagnostic index.

Data from a retrospective study in 41 patients is used to suggest an index of bone disease. This is designed as a means of collating available results, clarifying the significance of each in diagnosing either osteomalacia or osteoporosis, and reducing the significance of a single abnormal finding--for example, a raised alkaline phosphatase activity or low serum 25 hydroxy vitamin D, when the ov...

Osteomalacia and osteoporosis.

OSTEOMALACIA and osteoporosis are still sometimes confused because both diseases lead to a deficiency of calcium which can be detected on radiographs of the skeleton. This lack of calcium is the only feature common to the two diseases which are in all other ways easily distinguishable. Osteomalacia Osteomalacia will be discussed first, because it is a clearly defined disease which can be cured....

Chapter 27—osteoporosis and Osteomalacia

Osteoporosis develops in older adults when the normal processes of bone formation and resorption become uncoupled or unbalanced, resulting in bone loss. Fractures are the result of decreased bone mass and strength, and, in the case of wrist and hip fractures, they usually involve a fall. Osteoporosis prevention and treatment programs should therefore focus on strategies that minimize bone resor...

The Study of Osteoporosis and Osteomalacia.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Geriatric Headache

There is no difference in clinical characteristics of headache between old individuals and younger’s. However, differential diagnosis of migrainous aura and transient ischemic attacks may be difficult in old people who frequently have vascular risk factors. Old people have less headache than the young’s. Chronic tension headache is the most common primary type of headache in the elderly. Chroni...