ArticleJournal of osteoporosis2012
Bone mineral density in spinal cord injury: an evaluation of the distal femur.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Beyond the initial impact: a systematic review of post-traumatic bone loss and its mechanisms.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026Pooled it
- Different approach to bone mineral density in non-traumatic spinal cord injury: a comparison with traumatic spinal cord injury.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Bone mineral density after spinal cord injury: assessment of hip and knee measurements.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2025Article
- Sclerostin Concentration and Bone Biomarker Trends in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Osteoporosis after spinal cord injury: aetiology, effects and therapeutic approaches.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2021Review
- Neurogenic Obesity and Skeletal Pathology in Spinal Cord Injury.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2021Review
- Spinal cord injury providers' perspectives on managing sublesional osteoporosis.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2020Article
- Prevention and management of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures in persons with a spinal cord injury or disorder: A systematic scoping review.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2019Article
- Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and fracture prediction in patients with spinal cord injuries and disorders.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2017Article
- Health status of regularly physically active persons with spinal cord injury.Spinal cord series and cases · 2017Article
- Effects of salubrinal on development of osteoclasts and osteoblasts from bone marrow-derived cells.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2013Article
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Abstract
Osteoporosis (OP) in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients is a secondary process in which numerous factors are involved. Diagnosing OP and the threshold for fractures in this population, based on bone mineral density (BMD) measured by double energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), is still a challenge. The aim of this study was to evaluate bone mineral loss by DXA, its relationship with body composition and fracture incidence, in complete paraplegics patients, compared with aged-matched controls; we include a nonstandard bone site, the distal femur, and describe the technical and practical aspects of this procedure. Twenty-five SCI patients were included in the study and 17 subjects as control group. No prior or recent fractures were observed in X-ray analysis. The BMD of all femoral sites was significantly lower in patients than in controls (femoral neck, total femur, and distal femur); no difference was observed between BMD of the lumbar spine of patients and controls. We found inverse relationship between time of SCI and bone mineral mass only for distal femur BMD. We conclude that the distal femur is a more sensitive bone site for assessing bone loss by DXA, in SCI patients, than the proximal femoral sites.
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