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Intervention for osteoperosis?
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risidronate: 10 mg OD/ 70 mg once weekly
-strontium 2g OD -1500 mg Ca/ 800 IU Vit D |
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Treatment for severe treatment resisitant osteoperosis?
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- teriparatide (20 ug daily)
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Treatment for vertebral crush fracture in osteoperosis?
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- 1-2 weeks bed rest
- diazepam 2mg/3 times daily - sub cut calcitonin (50-100 IU) or pamidronate (60-90mg once) |
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Treatment for Paget's disease of the bone?
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-bisphosphonates
--> pamidronate (360 mg sub cut injections spread over 6 weeks) -->Tiludronate (400mg daily for 12 weeks) |
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Treatment for rickets/osteomalacia?
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- VIT D 800 IU
- large injections of VIT D |
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Treatment of vit D resistant rickets, hypophosphotemic rickets (fanconi's/renal tubular acidosis)
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- calcitriol/alfacalcidol
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Treatment for osteogenesis imperfecta?
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-biphosphonates
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