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**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Endocrinology/Metabolic Disease**Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Case-Based Approach is a practical guide that will be useful to a wide range of practicing and in-training clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. With its clinical case and scenario-based approach, readers can quickly decide which clinical problem to address such as the management of osteoporosis of a particular clinical problem (Atypical femoral shaft fractures, Glucocorticoids and bone health, etc.). Each chapter is self-contained with a list of objectives at the beginning and a presentation of clinical cases that encourages self-learning to non-specialized clinical staff. This book is easily accessible to non-specialists, allowing any healthcare provider to learn how to diagnose and manage osteoporosis in the context of their practice.
List of contents
1. Screening for osteoporosis 2. Clinical diagnosis - fragility fractures of long bones 3. Clinical diagnosis - acute vertebral compression fractures 4. Opportunistic diagnosis - morphometric vertebral compression fractures 5. Fracture risk assessment 6. Osteoporosis in men7. Hyperparathyroidism 8. Low bone mass in premenopausal women 9. Osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) 10. Atypical femoral shaft fractures 11. Vitamin D 12. Bisphosphonates 13. Non-response to bisphosphonates14. Denosumab 15. Romosozumab 16. Teriparatide/Abaloparatide 17. Estrogen and raloxifene 18. Long term therapy and "drug holidays" 19. Combining anti-resorptive and osteo-anabolic medication 20. Glucocorticoids and bone health
About the author
Ronald C. Hamdy, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. is professor of Medicine, holder of the Cecile Cox Quillen Chair of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and director of the Osteoporosis Center at East Tennessee State University. Prior to this editorial appointment, he served for ten years from 2000 to 2010 as the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern Medical Journal. Dr. Hamdy has published 5 medical textbooks and over 200 original and review manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical journals.
