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Osteonecrosis de los maxilares asociada a drogas antirresortivas en pacientes osteoporóticos: presentación de un caso clínico

La osteoporosis se caracteriza por una masa ósea baja con deterioro de la microarquitectura del tejido que conduce a la fragilidad, lo que aumenta el riesgo de fracturas. Después de la menopausia, la deficiencia de estrógenos aumenta la exposición del tejido al ligan- do RANK, lo que resulta en un au...

Osteoporosis, un problema de salud de estos tiempos
Osteoporosis, a health problem of our times

Rev. medica electron; 43 (2), 2021
RESUMEN En los adultos mayores existen múltiples enfermedades que afectan su calidad de vida y el logro de una longevidad satisfactoria. Una de ellas es la osteoporosis, enfermedad de elevada incidencia a nivel mundial, lo cual también se refleja en Cuba. Siendo una afección que conlleva a un alto gra...

Do avanafil and zaprinast exert positive effects on bone tissue via the nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate/protein kinase-G signaling pathway in rats with ovariectomy-induced osteoporosis?

Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors (PDE-5Is) exert positive effects on bone healing and mineralization by activation the nitric oxide/cyclic guanosine monophosphate/protein kinase-G (NO/cGMP/PKG) signaling pathway. In this study, the effects of zaprinast and avanafil, two PDE-5Is, on the NO signaling pathway...

Vertebral fractures in adult women with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Actual. osteol; 16 (2), 2020
Introduction. Diabetes is a chronic disease associated with important comorbidities. Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is associated with a three times increased risk of hip fracture but reports describing potential associations with vertebral fractures (VF) are contradictory. Our objective was to evaluate the fact...

Osteoporosis and hearing loss: findings from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2011

Abstract Introduction: Age-related hearing impairment is the most common sensory dysfunction in older adults. In osteoporosis, the mass of the ossicles will be decreased, affecting the bone density of the cochlea, and interfering with the sound transmission to the cochlea. Age related hearing loss might...

Subjective benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in patients with osteoporosis or migraine

Abstract Introduction Subjective benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is a form of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in which during the diagnostic positional maneuvers patients only present vertigo symptoms with no nystagmus. Objective To study the characteristics of subjects with subjective benign...

Osteoporosis juvenil idiopática. Presentación de un caso

Introdución: la osteoporosis juvenil idiopática (OJI) es el término descriptivo aplicado a la osteoporosis de etiología desconocida en la edad pediátrica. Se caracteriza por la pérdida progresiva de la masa ósea y el deterioro de su microarquitectura, lo que lleva al aumento de la fragilidad ósea...

Efficacy and safety of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis combined with osteoporosis

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) combined with osteoporosis. METHODS: Eighty patients with LSS combined with osteoporosis were divided into a control and PTED group, whi...