Abstract:
:Computerized tomography (CT) has the advantage of allowing the isolation of trabecular bone of the axial skeleton, which is the more sensitive to metabolic changes. By means of single-energy X-ray CT we have devised a method for assessing trabecular bone mass (TBM) at L-4 vertebral body, which has an acceptable reproducibility (CV = 2.76%). Normal values where obtained after studying 29 normal individuals from both sexes and different ages. In order to know if the method is accurate, TBM was assessed in 17 patients (6 with creatinine clearance less than 6 ml/min and 11 on chronic hemodialysis), and in all of them the results were compared with the histomorphometry of the iliac crest bone biopsy. TBM assessed by CT correlated with trabecular bone volume (TBV; mineralized bone + osteoid) (r = 0.82; p less than 0.001) and this correlation was not improved after adding the volume of marrow fibrosis to TBV. TBM assessed by CT also correlated with mineralized bone volume but at a lower level of significance (r = 0.72; p = 0.001), and no correlation was found with relative osteoid volume alone. These findings suggest that final CT value is an integral of mineralized bone and osteoid but with a higher influence of mineralized bone. Osteomalacia and osteitis fibrosa were seen in situations of normal, decreased, or increased TBM assessed by CT, although the 2 patients with severe osteosclerosis suffered osteomalacia. We conclude that the assessment of TBM by CT at the axial skeleton of uremic patients has an acceptable reproducibility and accuracy.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Nephronjournal_title
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Torres A,Lorenzo V,Gonzalez-Posada JMdoi
10.1159/000184007subject
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1986-01-01 00:00:00pages
282-7issue
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1660-8151issn
2235-3186journal_volume
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