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In a patient who fractures after several years of denosumab therapy, would you wait 6 months after the last denosumab injection to start an anabolic agent or could start an anabolic agent sooner?

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Rheumatology · U of AZ Phoenix Dept of Orthopaedics

In a patient on any antiresorptive drug who fractures, we should consider an anabolic drug. A fracture does not always mean the drug has failed but we should consider changing to an anabolic since we have good evidence that anabolics have superior fracture risk reduction.

Denosumab is of course mor...

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