Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients (eBook)

Aenor Sawyer (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 2007
XVIII, 226 Seiten
Humana Press (Verlag)
978-1-59745-211-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice, edited by Drs. Sawyer, Bachrach, and Fung, is a milestone book for all health prof- sionals concerned with bone health in growing patients. The book introduces and emphasizes the importance of attending to issues of bone health and development in childhood and adolescence as a way of maintaining such health and decreasing the epidemic of osteoporosis that we are now seeing in older adults. In doing so, the book offers a much-needed first set of standards of bone densitometry in growing patients. Given the numerous reports of serious interpretation errors in densitometry results in children, the development of this body of work is truly important. It is in this context that Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice presents the current evidence, including an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the data on assessing bone density in childhood and adolescence. In short, the editors and authors have done an outstanding job of or- nizing not only the key topics in this broad clinical discussion, but also, and most importantly, the evidence within these areas.

Inhalt

Series Editor’s Introduction 6
Foreword 7
Preface 8
Acknowledgments 11
Dedication 12
Contents 13
Contributors 15
Acronyms 16
Rationale for Bone Densitometry in Childhood and Adolescence 17
Tools for Measuring Bone in Children and Adolescents 30
Clinical Indications for the Use of DXA in Pediatrics 73
Acquisition of DXA in Children and Adolescents 87
Analysis 106
Evaluation 127
Reporting DXA Results 138
Children With Special Considerations 148
Research Considerations 170
Looking to the Future of Pediatric Bone Densitometry 184
Appendix A Resources 190
Appendix B Equations and Calculations 207
Appendix C Pediatric Normative Data 209
Appendix D Forms and Handouts 222
Index 231

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Current Clinical Practice
• Reihe/Serie: Current Clinical Practice
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 226 p. 90 illus.
• Verlagsort: Totowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Unfallchirurgie / Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Orthopädie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
• Schlagworte: Bone • Childhood • Osteoporosis • Pediatrics
• ISBN-10: 1-59745-211-4 / 1597452114
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59745-211-3 / 9781597452113