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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2022

Are Children Suffering From Congenital Pseudarthrosis of the Tibia Associated With Decreased Bone Strength?

Ge Yang, Siyu Xu, Haibo Mei, Guanghui Zhu, Yaoxi Liu, Qian Tan, Hui Yu

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Ge YangDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Siyu XuDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Haibo MeiDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Guanghui ZhuDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Yaoxi LiuDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Qian TanDepartment of Pediatric Orthopedics, The Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, China.
Hui YuDepartment of Orthopedics, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Hunan Children's Hospital · CNGuangdong Provincial People's Hospital · CN

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Abstract

Background: Congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (CPT) is a rare and difficult-to-treat congenital disease in neonates. Our previous study found that exosomes derived from serum of children with CPT inhibit bone formation. In this study, we used ultrasound bone densitometry to detect the bone strength differences between hospitalized children with CPT and with non-metabolic diseases to determine the bone strength of children with CPT. Methods: A total of 37 children with CPT with a mean age of 3.14 ± 1.81 years and 40 hospitalized children with a mean age of 3.32 ± 2.66 years with supracondylar fracture of the humerus and without a bone metabolic disease (control group) were recruited in our hospital. The ultrasonic bone densitometer was used to examine the bilateral calcaneus of the subjects. We collected the broadband ultrasonic attenuation (BUA), speed of sound (SOS), quantitative ultrasound index (QUI), bone strength index (STI) and bone mineral density estimation (BMDe) values. Multivariable regression was used to examine the associations between quantitative ultrasound measurement differences and age, body mass index (BMI), neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and CPT Crawford type. Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated to estimate intra- and inter-rater agreements. Results: 74 calcaneus scans were taken from CPT patients (23 boys and 14 girls) and 80 calcaneus scans were taken from the control (24 boys and 16 girls). The CPT patients exhibited significantly lower SOS (1,368.75 ± 136.78 m/s), STI (7.2319 ± 38.6525), QUI (8.2532 ± 56.1720), and BMDe (-0.0241 ± 0.3552 g/cm Conclusions: We found the incidence of decreased bone strength in CPT group was higher than that in the non-bone metabolic disease group. This phenomenon was not related to NF1 but related to CPT Crawford classification, which suggested that the higher the grade of the CPT Crawford classification, the lower the bone strength and the higher the risk of fracture.

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bone mineral density estimationbone qualitycongenital pseudarthrosis of the tibiaquantitative ultrasoundultrasonic bone densitometer

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