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What treatment options would you consider for a young patient with limited mobility, low bone mass and multiple vertebral compression fractures who is on dialysis for advanced kidney disease?

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Endocrinology · Duke University Hospital

There are a lot of variables to this question. I would worry that the person may have a variant of OI (osteogenesis imperfecta) or some other collage problem and then add renal failure to the mix.

I would try to establish the causes of each problem first such as steroid induced bone disease or a bon...

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