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The high risk of vertebral fractures (VFs) in acromegaly patients despite normal bone mineral density (BMD) is well known. The reasons for this paradoxical finding of skeleton fragility are poorly understood d...
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Long-Term Persistence of Low Bone Density in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
We determined bone density and metabolism in 46 patients (35 males, 11 females) who had undergone liver transplantation 1–48 months previously. Twenty-one patients were then followed for the next 24 months. A...
