Changes of the quality-of-life under the treatment of severe senile osteoporosis with teriparatide.

Despite being treated with antiresorptive drugs, the severe osteoporosis (SO) is being considered as a condition in which patients are still subject to one or more vertebral or femoral fractures, or non-vertebral or non-femoral fractures, i.e., of other parts of the body such as the wrist, shoulder, tibia, ribs or hip.