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The bone and mineral manual : a practical guide /

The Bone and Mineral Manual incorporates the most up-to-date laboratory methods, techniques, and approaches for designing strategies and investigating the pathophysiology of bone and mineral metabolism. It presents information in a succinct format that allows practitioners to find the answers they n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kleerekoper, Michael, Siris, Ethel S., McClung, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Academic Press, �1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Diagnostic procedures
  • Practical guide to bone densitometry
  • Indications for bone mass measurement
  • Laboratory analyses useful in the diagnosis of calcium metabolic disorders
  • Biochemical markers of bone remodeling
  • Skeletal imaging: radiographs, CT, MRI
  • Scintigraphy
  • Bone biopsy in malignant and metabolic bone diseases
  • Clinical disorders
  • Neonates and children
  • Hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia in neonates
  • Preterm infants with fractures
  • Rickets
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Juvenile osteoporosis
  • Fibrous dysplasia
  • Adolescents
  • Secondary amenorrhea
  • Young adults
  • Nephrolithiasis
  • Acute spinal cord injury, closed head injury, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • Osteoporosis
  • Prevention of bone loss
  • Prevention of fractures in patients with low bone mass
  • Evaluation
  • Osteoporosis in men
  • Steroid-induced osteoporosis
  • Organ transplantation
  • Pharmacologic therapy
  • Nonpharmacologic therapy
  • Other bone diseases
  • Paget's disease
  • Renal bone diseases
  • Metastatic bone disease
  • Osteomalacia
  • High bone mass
  • Abnormal serum calcium
  • Primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Nonparathyroid chronic and acute hypercalcemias
  • Hypocalcemia
  • Patient and family education and support
  • Principles of patient and family education and support
  • Resources for education and support.