Background: This study aimed to assess cutoff of ferritin for evaluation of osteoporosis in patients with Thalassemia Major (TM). Materials and Methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was conducted in17 Shahrivar children's hospital, Rasht, Iran, from November 2017 to November 2018. The inclusion criteria were indicated as the presence of  TM in patients aged 12-19 years old with records ...

introduction: thalassemia is the most common genetic disorder, affecting around 200 million people worldwide. the etiology of this bone disease is multifactorial. seemingly, in the setting of increased bone turnover which manifests by increased bone resorption and remodeling; bone density decreases. in this research, thalassaemia patients with osteoporosis were placed on oral alendronate therap...

Background: Ageing of population worldwide will be responsible for a major increase of the incidence of osteoporosis in elderly. For the individual, osteoporotic fractures result in great disability as well as loss of quality of life and also represent an enormous burden for healthcare systems. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and it's association with serum ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the results from arthroscopic suturing of large and extensive rotator cuff injuries, according to the patient's degree of osteopenia. METHOD 138 patients who underwent arthroscopic suturing of large and extensive rotator cuff injuries between 2003 and 2011 were analyzed. Those operated from October 2008 onwards formed a prospective cohort, while the remainder formed a ret...

The rapidly evolving technology of bone mineral density (BMD) testing has revolutionized the clinical care of osteoporosis; however, at present, there are no guidelines for BMD reporting. A survey was mailed to a random sample of bone densitometry centers in the United States registered in the National Osteoporosis Foundation database in order to evaluate the practice of BMD reporting in the Un...

BACKGROUND Using the same cutoff points for whole-body measurements as for site-specific measurements will result in underestimation of osteoporosis. OBJECTIVES We assessed the correlation between densitometry measurements for the whole body with those for the femur, lumbar spine, and forearm to evaluate the possibility of replacing site-specific values with whole-body measurements. PATIENT...

abstract introduction: adequate intake of fruits and vegetables as part of the daily diet could help prevent major non-communicable diseases including osteoporosis. some nutrients abundant in fruits and vegetables have been shown to affect bone health. in the present study we evaluated fruit and vegetable intake in postmenopausal women with osteopenia who had referred to bone mineral densitomet...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the healing of bone defects in male rats treated with salmon calcitonin, low-level laser therapy (LLLT), or both. BACKGROUND Healing of bone defects still represents a challenge to health professionals in several areas. In this article, the effect of calcitonin in combination with LLLT on bone repair was studied. Densitometry was used as a valuable tool for the measur...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) in healthy female Brazilian adolescents in five groups looking at chronological age, bone age, and pubertal breast stage, and determining BMD behavior for each classification. METHODS Seventy-two healthy female adolescents aged between 10 to 20 incomplete years were divided into five groups and evaluated for calcium int...