Liver transplantation and osteoporosis: Securing "bone-fied" success

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1322-1323

  Karges, Wolfram ^a   Trautwein, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALENDRONIC ACID; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PAMIDRONIC ACID; STEROID; VITAMIN D; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASE; BONE MASS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; FALLING; FEMUR; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IMMOBILIZATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUMBAR SPINE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BONE DENSITY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 33748781699     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20867     Document Type: Editorial

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