Osteopenia: Individualizing treatment—Part IV
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. •…
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Osteopenia: Individualizing treatment—Part III: When silent vertebral compression fractures override the densitometric diagnosis
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…
Osteopenia: Individualizing treatment—Part II
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…
Densitometric diagnosis: DXA scans
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…
Osteopenia: Individualizing treatment—Part I
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…
Opportunistic/morphometric diagnosis—Silent vertebral fractures
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…
Clinical diagnosis: Acute vertebral fragility fracture
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…
Clinical diagnosis: Fragility hip fracture
Learning objectives • Osteoporosis is a silent, asymptomatic disease until a fracture is sustained. • Fragility fractures are diagnostic of osteoporosis, regardless of densitometric findings, but after excluding localized bone…
Clinical diagnosis: Fragility fracture long bones
Learning objectives • A fragility fracture, per se, is diagnostic of osteoporosis and increases the risk of further fractures. • The impact of hazardous environments leading to falls and fractures….
Management of diabetic foot disease
1 Introduction Diabetic foot disease (DFD) can present as diabetic neuropathy (DN), peripheral arterial disease (PAD), Charcot neuroarthropathy (CNA), diabetic foot ulcer, and osteomyelitis, also known as the diabetic foot…
