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- Title
Intravenous pamidronate treatment in osteogenesis imperfecta.
- Authors
Fujiwara, I.; Ogawa, E.; Igarashi, Y.; Ohba, M.; Asanuma, A.
- Abstract
Presents two case reports which indicated effectiveness of oral pamidronate, a bisphosphonate which potentially inhibits bone resorption, in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Concern that the efficacy was unclear because the patients were pubertal and sex hormone changes might have contributed to increased bone mineral density; Details on the patients studied; Details on the study and its results and conclusions.
- Subjects
DISODIUM pamidronate; DIPHOSPHONATES; OSTEOGENESIS imperfecta; TREATMENT of bone diseases; BONE resorption inhibitors; CASE studies; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
European Journal of Pediatrics, 1998, Vol 157, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
0340-6199
- Publication type
Article