Metabolic Bone Disease Flashcards
Bone remodeling
remove older, weaker bone and replacing with newer, stronger bone
- osteoclasts remove by creating resorption pit
- osteoblasts secrete osteoid (bone specific collagen) to fill pits up
- Ca adn Phosphate calcify
- osteoblasts become encased into bone as osteocytes and can sense where sites of stress and can remodel there where bone needed
what controls bone resorption
Rank-L; made by osteoblasts
- Binds to RANK on osteoclasts to stimulate resorption by osteoclasts
- bone marrow secretes Osteoprogeterin (OPG) -decoy receptor for RANK-L–binds RANK-L to prevent stimulating osteoclasts
- how much bone resorption depends on how much OPG compared to RANK-L
What controls bone formation
Wnt pathway
- aka Frizzled/LRP-5/Beta catenin
- stimulates osteoblasts to make new bone
- Slcerostin = protein in bone inhibiting this pathway/preventing bone formation
Osteoporosis
Compromised Bone strength
- predisposes to increased risk for fragility fractures= fractures from no/minimal trauma–standing height or less
3 main types fragility fractures
Spine, hip, wrist
Fragility fractures = osteoporosis
Risk factors for fragility fractures
Age
Falls
Low bone mass
Previous fractures
Osteopenia
T score -1 SD below mean
Osteoporosis definition
T score - 2.5 or fragility fracture
Risk factors for low bone mass
- Non modifiable: age, race, gender, fam hx, early menopause
- Modifiable: low Ca intake, Low vit D intake, estrogen deficiency, sedentary, cigarette, excess EtOH, excess caffeine, medications (steroids, thyroid hormone excess)
does low bone mass mean osteoporosis
NO–large differential
meds putting at risk for low bone mass
glucocorticoids, thyroid hormone, anticonvulsants, thiolidinediones, PPIs, SSRIs, SGL-2
Prevention/Treat Osteoporosis
Ca: 1000-1500 mg/day (Ca and PO4)
1000 Vit D
Exercise
Falls– prevent
pharmacologic idea behind treating osteoporosis
decrease bone reabsorption and increase formation
Osteomalacia and Rickets
- O= adults
- R = children
- impaired bone mineralization resulting on soft, weak bones
- Inadequate Ca x Phosphate product for bone mineralization
Phosphate Disorders
- Acquired hypophosphatemia (poor oral intake, renal phosphate wasting–can be cause of meds damaging kidneys)
- Congenital hypophosphatemic Ricket’s -95% cases of rickets (Vitamin D resistant Ricket’s– won’t respond to vit D) – have renal phosphate wasting and impaired 1,25 vit D formation