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Would you consider teriparatide in a postmenopausal woman with normal DEXA who had a traumatic humerus fracture three months prior with surgical intervention and plain Xrays showing only partial healing?
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Rheumatology · NYU Langone
At NYU, we have a multi-disciplinary approach to fracture non-unions and have used teriparatide in that setting usually at the request of our fracture surgeons. Those patients are not truly comparable to the patient described in your question as the non-union patients' fractures occurred significant...