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Would you switch a patient with glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis to romosozumab if a patient sustained a fragility fracture 1 year into treatment with teriparatide?

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Would you switch a patient with glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis to romosozumab if a patient sustained a fragility fracture 1 year into treatment with teriparatide?

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This is an interesting question for which there is no evidence-based medicine. It would be important to know what bone was broken. If it was a vertebral fracture I would likely suggest a change to romosozumab because vertebral fractures are usually not traumatic and are the purest osteoporotic fract...

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