This week we are going to discuss something which is quite common, yet it occurs for a variety of reasons—the vertebral compression fracture (VCF). Vertebral compression fractures occur when the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with active ankylosing spondylitis had a high prevalence of radiographic vertebral fractures, according ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Romosozumab is associated with marked reductions in all vertebral fracture grades, and these are sustained after ...

Most clinically important vertebral body compression fractures found on abdominal multidetector computed tomography (CT) scans would go unreported if sagittal reconstructions were not routinely ...

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The prevalence of vertebral fractures is high among men with prostate cancer at the start of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to findings from a cross-sectional, real-world study in the ...

The researchers found that 6.3, 6.6, and 11.1% of the zoledronate-zoledronate, zoledronate-placebo, and placebo-placebo groups, respectively, had a new morphometric fracture at follow-up. HealthDay ...

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Intravenous zoledronate (Reclast) administered once every 5 years reduced the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women, a randomized trial showed. Over 10 years of ...

In a small study, 34% of dialysis patients had vertebral fractures, and patients in the highest tertile of parathyroid hormone level had a nearly 3-fold increased risk of these fractures compared with ...

As we age, it's common to notice posture changes: shoulders rounding, head leaning forward, back starting to curve. You might associate this with older adults and ...

Getting back surgery to fix fractures caused by compression of the spine may not be any more beneficial than more conservative treatments, according to a new study of Medicare patients. Researchers ...