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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San Diego :
Academic Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.