Publications by authors named "A P Balanika"
Comparative Evaluation of Osteoporosis Clinical Risk Assessment Tools in Postmenopausal Women Aged 50-64.
J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluates five osteoporosis risk assessment tools in young postmenopausal women aged 50-64, focusing on those who had DXA screenings.
- It involves 258 women, analyzing how different risk scores relate to their DXA T-scores, finding notable differences based on T-score thresholds.
- Despite some limitations, the OST tool shows the strongest correlation with DXA results, indicating its potential as a valuable screening option for this age group.
This study aimed to review shoulder clinical and imaging findings in Parkinson's disease (PD), focusing on the significance of timely diagnosis and management of shoulder dysfunction in PD for the prevention of shoulder-related complications. A bibliographical search was employed, using "Parkinson's" and "Shoulder Dysfunction" as keywords. A Magnetic Resonance Imaging, twenty clinical and three US studies were selected as relevant to shoulder dysfunction in PD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of the Quality of Life and the Quality of Sleep of postmenopausal osteoporotic women, without evidence of an osteoporotic fracture, who attended an outpatient DXA scan service.
J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact
March 2023
Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate whether impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and possibly, the quality of sleep (Sleep Quality - SQ), of osteoporotic women, may occur, even before the onset of an osteoporotic fracture.
Methods: The study included 109 women, divided (DXA) into two groups (age-matched): the Control Group (n=68; normal and osteopenic) and the Patient Group (n=41; osteoporotic). Review of medical history of the participants, was followed by evaluation of HRQOL and SQ with the EQ-5D-3L and the PSQI questionnaires, respectively.
Article Synopsis
- Mosaicism involves having genetically distinct cells in the body, which can complicate diagnosis due to subtle symptoms and detection challenges.
- In a study using whole-genome sequencing, researchers identified mosaic genetic deletions in two patients with skeletal disorders: a 7-nucleotide frameshift in a female with osteopathia striata and a 3710-basepair deletion in a male with cleidocranial dysplasia.
- The findings suggest that mosaicism is an important factor in unexplained skeletal dysplasia cases and should be investigated using advanced detection techniques.
Objective: To highlight potential pitfalls in diagnosis and management of patients with concomitant gout and septic arthritis.
Methods: Presentation of two patients with concomitant gout and septic arthritis, the latter caused by and , in one patient each. We also reviewed the English language literature on PubMed for similar cases.