Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients

We demonstrate for the first time therapeutic effects of vitamin K(2) (menatetrenone) on pregnancy-associated osteoporosis with multiple vertebral fractures in four cases. Due to its safety, vitamin K(2) presents itself as a treatment option for women with pregnancy-associated osteoporosis. Desirabl...

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Autores principales: Tsuchie, Hiroyuki, Miyakoshi, Naohisa, Hongo, Michio, Kasukawa, Yuji, Ishikawa, Yoshinori, Shimada, Yoichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2012
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22746299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.676573
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author Tsuchie, Hiroyuki
Miyakoshi, Naohisa
Hongo, Michio
Kasukawa, Yuji
Ishikawa, Yoshinori
Shimada, Yoichi
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description We demonstrate for the first time therapeutic effects of vitamin K(2) (menatetrenone) on pregnancy-associated osteoporosis with multiple vertebral fractures in four cases. Due to its safety, vitamin K(2) presents itself as a treatment option for women with pregnancy-associated osteoporosis. Desirably, future controlled studies should verify these findings.
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spelling pubmed-34102942012-08-02 Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients Tsuchie, Hiroyuki Miyakoshi, Naohisa Hongo, Michio Kasukawa, Yuji Ishikawa, Yoshinori Shimada, Yoichi Ups J Med Sci Case Reports We demonstrate for the first time therapeutic effects of vitamin K(2) (menatetrenone) on pregnancy-associated osteoporosis with multiple vertebral fractures in four cases. Due to its safety, vitamin K(2) presents itself as a treatment option for women with pregnancy-associated osteoporosis. Desirably, future controlled studies should verify these findings. Informa Healthcare 2012-08 2012-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3410294/ /pubmed/22746299 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.676573 Text en © Informa Healthcare http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Tsuchie, Hiroyuki
Miyakoshi, Naohisa
Hongo, Michio
Kasukawa, Yuji
Ishikawa, Yoshinori
Shimada, Yoichi
Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title_full Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title_fullStr Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title_full_unstemmed Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title_short Amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin K(2): a report of four patients
title_sort amelioration of pregnancy-associated osteoporosis after treatment with vitamin k(2): a report of four patients
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22746299
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03009734.2012.676573
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