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Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report

The following case describes the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of a 49 year-old patient with back pain in the thoracic spine and lower extremity edema. His initial presentation, coupled with a history of trauma, required an extensive work-up to determine the source of the back pain and edem...

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Autores principales: Leitman, David, Ross, Kenneth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7034
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description The following case describes the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of a 49 year-old patient with back pain in the thoracic spine and lower extremity edema. His initial presentation, coupled with a history of trauma, required an extensive work-up to determine the source of the back pain and edema. The patient was determined to have two thoracic vertebral compression fractures, bilateral lower extremity edema of unknown origin, and osteoporosis. After diagnosis, several specialists were consulted to determine the cause of the patient’s osteoporosis. Treatment consisted of kyphoplasty, physical therapy, and medication to prevent the progression of osteoporosis.
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spelling pubmed-27402352009-10-14 Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report Leitman, David Ross, Kenneth Cases J Case report The following case describes the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of a 49 year-old patient with back pain in the thoracic spine and lower extremity edema. His initial presentation, coupled with a history of trauma, required an extensive work-up to determine the source of the back pain and edema. The patient was determined to have two thoracic vertebral compression fractures, bilateral lower extremity edema of unknown origin, and osteoporosis. After diagnosis, several specialists were consulted to determine the cause of the patient’s osteoporosis. Treatment consisted of kyphoplasty, physical therapy, and medication to prevent the progression of osteoporosis. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2740235/ /pubmed/19829900 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7034 Text en © 2009 Leitman and Ross; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title_full Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title_fullStr Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title_short Vertebral compression fractures in an HIV-positive patient with steroid-induced Cushing syndrome: a case report
title_sort vertebral compression fractures in an hiv-positive patient with steroid-induced cushing syndrome: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7034
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