The Osteoporotic Syndrome

Detection, Prevention, and Treatment

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