Bisphosphonates in Medical Practice Actions — Side Effects — Indications — Strategies /

• Main Authors: Bartl, Reiner (Author), Frisch, Bertha (Author), Tresckow, Emmo von (Author), Bartl, Christoph (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Internal medicine.; Orthopedics.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Clinical osteology is now an independent specialty which nevertheless encompasses all branches of medicine and effects each and every one of us: Bone is Every Body´s Business: This book has been designed as an up to date manual to deal with the currently recognized indications for bisphosphonates, t...

Table of Contents:

• The Skeleton
• Disorders of Bone
• Bisphosphonates
• Osteoporotic Syndrome
• Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis
• Tumor and Chemotherapy Induced Osteoporosis
• Transplantation Osteoporosis
• Immobilisation Osteoporosis
• Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
• AIDS Osteopathy
• Renal Osteopathy
• Paget’s Disease of Bone
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
• Transient Osteoporosis and the Bone Marrow Edema Syndrome (BMES)
• Vanishing Bone Disease (Gorham-Stout Syndrome)
• Fibrous Dysplasia
• SAPHO Syndrome
• Heterotopic Calcification and Ossification
• Periprosthetic Osteolysis and Aseptic Loosening of Prostheses in Total Joint Arthroplasty
• Alveolar Bone Loss due to Periodontitis
• Hypercalcemia
• Bone Pain
• Multiple Myeloma
• Bone Metastases
• Skeletal Metastases of Breast Cancer
• Other Carcinomas with Osteotropic Metastases
• Bisphosphonates from A-Z
• Summary and Perspectives
• Literature Survey.