Academic Journal
1.0 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF GUIDELINES
| العنوان: | 1.0 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF GUIDELINES |
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| المؤلفون: | J D Collier, M Ninkovic, J E Compston |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://gut.bmj.com/content/50/suppl_1/i1.full.pdf. |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | An important complication of chronic liver disease is osteo-dystrophy which includes osteoporosis and the much rarer osteomalacia. Both conditions are associated with significant morbidity through fractures resulting in pain, deformity, and immobility. There is also a further significant increase in the risk of fractures following liver transplantation for end stage chronic liver disease. Osteoporosis is defined as a “progressive systemic skeletal disease characterised by low bone mass and microarchitec-tural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture ” (World Health Organisation, 1994). Common fractures are vertebral com-pression fractures, fractures of the distal radius, and proximal femur. Although guidelines on the prevention and management of |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.8026; http://gut.bmj.com/content/50/suppl_1/i1.full.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.8026 http://gut.bmj.com/content/50/suppl_1/i1.full.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F74C0E1F |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |