Title VERTEBRAL OSTEOPOROSIS ESPECIALLY ITS ROENTGENOLOGICAL STUDY

Analgesic efficacy of calcitonin for vertebral fracture pain.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the analgesic efficacy of calcitonin for treating the pain of vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis. DATA SOURCES Searches of MEDLINE (1966-July 2002), Cochrane Library, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1977-July 2002), and an extensive manual review of journals were performed using the key search terms calcitonin, analgesic, osteoporosis, vertebral fra...

Author's response to reviews Title: Use of Anthropometric Indicators in Screening for Undiagnosed Vertebral Fractures: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Fukui Osteoporosis Cohort (FOC) Study Authors:

[The impact of vertebral fractures on quality of life in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Validity of the Italian version of mini-Osteoporosis Quality of Life Questionnaire.].

BACKGROUND Vertebral fracture is one of the most commonly occurring osteoporotic fractures. Vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis are a major cause of pain in elderly people and may hardly affect patient's health-related quality of life (HRQOL), making this an important parameter for assessment in these patients. Studies comparing the performance of HRQOL instruments in osteoporosis ...

Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis.

The aim of treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis is to reduce the frequency of vertebral and non-vertebral fractures (especially at the hip), which are responsible for morbidity associated with the disease. Results of large placebo controlled trials have shown that alendronate, raloxifene, risedronate, the 1-34 fragment of parathyroid hormone, and nasal calcitonin, greatly reduce the risk of...

Early diagnosis of vertebral fractures.

Vertebral fractures are a common clinical entity, caused by trauma or related to osteoporosis (benign). Their recognition is especially important in the post-menopausal female population but also important is their differentiation from pathological (malignant) fractures (1). A vertebral fracture is evidenced by vertebral body deformity or reduction in vertebral body height beyond a certain thre...