The discriminatory capacity of BMD measurements by DXA and dual X-ray and laser (DXL) at the calcaneus including clinical risk factors for detecting patients with vertebral fractures.

Unlabelled: Osteoporotic fracture risk depends on bone mineral density (BMD) and clinical risk factors (CRF). Five hundred and eighty-eight untreated female and male outpatient subjects were evaluated, 160 with vertebral fractures. BMD was measured both by using calcaneal dual X-ray and laser (DXL) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and CRF were evaluated.

Prevalence of vertebral fracture in elderly men and women with osteopenia.

The objective of our cross-sectional, not population-based, observational study was to determine the prevalence of patients with osteopenia in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) and vertebral fractures and to identify risk factors for vertebral fractures above the osteoporotic BMD T-score threshold of -2.5. A total of 698 consecutive hospitalized and ambulatory white patients with T-scores between -1.

Embolization of bone metastases.

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness and clinical usefulness of transcatheter embolization of bone metastases.

Patients And Methods: The procedures and outcome of 61 transcatheter embolization procedures performed in 51 patients with hypervascular skeletal metastases were retrospectively evaluated. Results from computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and diagnostic angiography, performed before and after embolization, were reviewed.

[Sonographic findings following laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

In a prospective study 500 patients were examined sonographically following laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 183 on several occasions. In the majority of patients (79.4%) there were no remarkable findings, either clinically or sonographically.