Overview
- Covers diagnosis, fracture prevention, optimized practice, impaired orthostasis, and falls
- Presents a vision of diagnosis and management for the year 2021 and beyond
- Provides an in-depth overview of osteoporosis and bone health in complex patients
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bone Health: Towards Better Bones
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Prevention: Recent Advances
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Keywords
- Anabolic vs. antiresorptive therapy for osteoporosis
- Bone fracture prevention
- Bone health and osteoporosis
- Bone health in complex patients
- Goal-directed therapy for osteoporosis
- Imaging techniques for osteoporosis
- Individualizing therapy for osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis diagnosis and management
- Osteoporosis and bone health in complex patients
- Osteoporosis and primary care
About this book
This book provides a review of the most recent data on osteoporosis and bone health, presenting a vision of diagnosis and management for the year 2021 and beyond. It covers all pertinent aspects of bone health including diagnosis, fracture prevention, optimized practice, impaired orthostasis, and falls.
The book examines recent developments in therapeutics, including goal-directed therapy, individualizing therapy, sequential and combined therapies, pharmaceuticals, and anabolic vs. antiresorptive therapy. In addition, it provides an in-depth overview of osteoporosis and bone health in complex patients, covering Duchene dystrophy, renal failure, periodontal diseases, and steroid-induced osteoporosis as well as considerations for pediatric populations and men.
New Horizons in Osteoporosis Management is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, graduate students and nurses in rheumatology, endocrinology, radiology, pediatrics, primary care, and internal medicine.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Yasser El Miedany, MD, FRCP
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
King’s College London
London, UK.
Canterbury Christ Church University
Kent, UK
Consultant Rheumatologist
Medway Foundation TrustKent, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Horizons in Osteoporosis Management
Editors: Yasser El Miedany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87950-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87949-5Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87952-5Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87950-1Published: 03 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 916
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 153 illustrations in colour
Topics: Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Orthopedics