Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0005p466 | Other diseases of bone and mineral metabolism | ECTS2016

Bone histomorphometric alterations and chronic kidney disease in patients with osteoarthritis and osteoporosis

Feola Maurizio , Rao Cecilia , Scimeca Manuel , Buharaja Rodrigo , Scialdoni Alessandro , Tarantino Umberto

Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis are two elderly conditions characterized by two different pathophysiological mechanisms. In patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), there is a metabolic impairment of the muscular-skeletal tissue. The aim of our study is to evaluate the biochemical and morphostructural alterations in different states of CKD in patients with osteoarthritis or hip fracture.We evaluated all patients undergoing hip replacement surgery from...