D'Haese PC, Cabrera WE, Lamberts LV, Elseviers MM, Schrooten
I, Couttenye MM, Goodman WG, De Broe ME
Bone strontium levels are increased in dialysis patients with
osteomalacia
33rd Congress of the Eur Dial Transplant Assoc
Nephrol Dial Transplant
(Jun) 11:A42 1996
In this collaborative study trace metal analyses were performed in
100 bone biopsies. The bone concentration of strontium was
selectively increased in patients with osteomalacia. Indeed
strontium levels were 2 times higher in patients with osteomalacia
than in those with hyperparathyroid bone disease, adynamic or mixed
lesion, or normal histology. Interestingly in patients with
osteomalacia bone strontium was directly related with Al and Ca
concentrations.
Comment: Osteomalacia is associated
with markedly raised bone strontium. It remains to be seen if
strontium accumulation has a pathogenetic role in osteomalacia in
these patients (Carmine Zoccali, M.D., Reggio Calabria,
Italy).
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