Nutritional, Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders Flashcards
What is the most common metabolic bone disorder described as a skeletal disease, characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture?
Osteoporosis
After the age of 35, how much cortical bone is lost per year? Trabecular bone?
Cortical bone: 1% per year
Trabecular bone: 2% per year
At menopause, how much does this loss accelerate? Lumbar spine?
10 fold 20 fold (6% per year)
At what age does sex ratio or bone loss equalize between male:female?
80 years old
How likely is someone to get a mid femur stress fracture for patients taking Bisphosphonates compared to untreated women?
50x
What may Progressive angular kyphotic deformity within 1 year of spinal compression fracture result in?
Spinal Stenosis
What is an effective and minimally invasive procedure in which acrylic bone cement is injected to stabilize and strengthen a collapsing vertebral body?
Vertebroplasty
What percent of patients with osteoporotic compression fracture will experience another fracture within 1 year?
20%
What uses a balloon dilatation of vertebral body, with subsequent instillation of polymethylmethacrylate?
Kyphoblasty
What DEXA score is a comparison of a person’s bone density with that of a healthy 30-year-old of the same sex?
T-score
What DEXA score is a comparison of a person’s bone density with that of an average person of the same age and sex?
Z-score
What is a normal T-score?
> -1
What T-score indicates osteoporosis?
What is most commonly used to assess the strength of vertebrae in assessment of fracture risk?
Quantitative CT
How much percent loss of bone mass is needed to indicate osteoporosis?
30-50%
What are 2 Roentgen signs of osteoporosis?
cortical thinning
altered trabecular pattern
What is the Vertebral body shape of osteoporosis?
Vertebra Plana (compression of anterior and posterior portions of vertebral body)
What is a Loss of anterior vertebral body height called?
Wedge vertebra
Where are wedge vertebra most commonly seen?
mid thoracic and TL junction
What is a Hour-glass or fish vertebrae and is Due to pressure of nucleus pulposus upon weakened endplates?
Biconcave vertebra
What do vertebra plana’s have inside the vertebral body?
GAS
What presents with marked sacral tenderness on physical examination, and rami fractures present with pain in the low back, groin, or hip?
Sacral Insufficiency Fractures
What is the characteristic sign of a Sacral Insufficiency Fracture?
H-pattern/Honda sign
What 2 parts of the body does Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS) (rapid progressive osteoporosis) usually affect?
hand and shoulder