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Ask the Expert, one of the interactive osteoporosis education features offered on OsteoporosisTX.com, provides you the opportunity to direct questions to our expert panel of clinicians about osteoporosis treatment and prevention. Our panel will address questions across a range of clinical topics relating to bone loss and osteoporosis, including risk assessment, diagnosis, bone density monitoring, fracture prevention, osteoporosis therapy, safety issues, and the role of bisphosphonates, calcitonin, estrogen/hormone therapy, estrogen receptor agonists/antagonists, PTH analogs, and other agents in osteoporosis treatment.
Questions submitted to Ask the Expert and the answers provided by the members of our panel will be posted on OsteoporosisTX.com along with supporting literature where appropriate.
Do you have a question relating to the management of patients who have, or who are at risk for, osteoporosis?
Current Ask the Expert Question
Vertebral fracture assessment in a 51-year old postmenopausal woman
I have a 51-year-old patient 18 months postmenopause with ~2 inch (30%) loss of height since her last visit when she was 45. She has mild back pain in her lumbar region but is otherwise healthy except for a recent diagnosis of hypertension. I recommended a lateral spine x-ray; should she also get a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan? Or should I wait for the x-ray?
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*Please note: the Ask the Expert section of OsteoporosisTX.com is designed for clinicians to ask challenging questions to our expert panel. If you are not a clinician and have a question for a health care professional, please contact the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) at http://www.nof.org/response_form/contacts.asp.
