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What is your approach to managing osteoporosis in patients with end stage kidney disease?

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Nephrology · U Chicago
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I don't believe you can make a diagnosis of osteoporosis in patients with ESRD. They have to be treated based on the disorders associated with CKD-MBD and not solely based on the results of a bone density scan. In some patients with documented low turnover disease and mineralization defect, some may...

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