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ReviewCurrent osteoporosis reports2015

Bone Imaging and Fracture Risk after Spinal Cord Injury.

W Brent Edwards, Thomas J Schnitzer

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Review in Current osteoporosis reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Bone fragility after spinal cord injury: reductions in stiffness and bone mineral at the distal femur and proximal tibia as a function of time.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
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  11. Incidental bilateral calcaneal fractures following overground walking with a wearable robotic exoskeleton in a wheelchair user with a chronic spinal cord injury: is zero risk possible?Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2020
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  15. Analysis of the evolution of cortical and trabecular bone compartments in the proximal femur after spinal cord injury by 3D-DXA.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
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  17. Inflammatory Stress Effects on Health and Function After Spinal Cord Injury.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

W Brent EdwardsHuman Performance Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, and Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada, wbedward@ucalgary.ca.
Thomas J Schnitzer
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is characterized by marked bone loss and an increased risk of fracture with high complication rate. Recent research based on advanced imaging analysis, including quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and patient-specific finite element (FE) modeling, has provided new and important insights into the magnitude and temporal pattern of bone loss, as well as the associated changes to bone structure and strength, following SCI. This work has illustrated the importance of early therapeutic treatment to prevent bone loss after SCI and may someday serve as the basis for a clinical fracture risk assessment tool for the SCI population. This review provides an update on the epidemiology of fracture after SCI and discusses new findings and significant developments related to bone loss and fracture risk assessment in the SCI population based on QCT analysis and patient-specific FE modeling.

Indexed as

Bone DensityFractures, BoneHumansOsteoporosisSpinal Cord Injuries

Identifiers

PMID26277792
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