Selected indicators of bone metabolism in patients after kidney transplant

Biomed Pap Med Fac Univ Palacky Olomouc Czech Repub. 2003 Dec;147(2):185-91. doi: 10.5507/bp.2003.027.

Abstract

Bone metabolism defects and skeleton diseases, so called renal osteopathy (RO), represent very serious clinical problems in the care of patients with kidney dysfunction. Renal osteopathy is a complicated skeletal disorder with a very complicated pathogenesis and we can encounter its individual forms in kidney transplant patients.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bone Density*
  • Bone and Bones / metabolism*
  • Calcium / metabolism
  • Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder / prevention & control
  • Disease Progression
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Phosphorus / metabolism

Substances

  • Phosphorus
  • Calcium