Learning objectives • Monitor patients on long-term antiresorptive therapy. • Determine whether to continue or discontinue long-term antiresorptive therapy. • Determine whether a “Drug holiday” is appropriate in the management…
Learning objectives • The pharmacology profile of orally administered bisphosphonates. • Initiating and maintaining pharmacologic treatment with oral bisphosphonates. The case study Reason for seeking medical help • BJ, a…
Learning objectives • The importance of screening for osteoporosis. • Risk factors predisposing to osteoporosis. • Who, when, and how to screen for osteoporosis. • Unnecessary laboratory and imaging studies…
Learning objectives • Individualizing the management strategy for patients with osteopenia and low fracture risk. • Know when to override the results of the FRAX score and NOF recommendations. •…
Learning objectives • The integration of DXA scan results, FRAX algorithm score, NOF guidelines, and patient’s clinical condition to develop a management strategy tailored to the individual circumstances of the…
Learning objective • Integrate clinical findings, DXA scan results, FRAX results, and NOF guidelines to develop a management strategy tailored to the individual needs of the particular patient concerned. The…
Learning objectives • The basic principles of bone densitometry. • The densitometric diagnostic criteria of osteoporosis and osteopenia. • Osteoporosis is asymptomatic until a fracture occurs. The case study Reason…
Learning objective • The integration of clinical findings, DXA scan results, FRAX scores, and National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines to individualize the management strategy for patients with densitometric evidence of osteopenia…
Learning objectives • Vertebral Compression Fractures (VCF) are often silent and referred to as “morphometric vertebral compression fractures.” • The radiological appearances of vertebral deformities and VCF. • In the…
Learning objectives • Fragility vertebral fractures are diagnostic of osteoporosis. • The presentation and management of acute symptomatic (clinical) and asymptomatic (morphometric) vertebral compression fractures are different. • The usefulness…
