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Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, also known as myositis ossificans progressiva, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder (1 in 2 million). It produces a catastrophic and crippling illness in young people for which there is no effective treatment. This case report presents a case of 7-year-old chi...

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Autores principales: Kochar, Inderpal Singh, Sethi, Aashish, Ramachandran, Smita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041177
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_52_18
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description Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, also known as myositis ossificans progressiva, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder (1 in 2 million). It produces a catastrophic and crippling illness in young people for which there is no effective treatment. This case report presents a case of 7-year-old child misdiagnosed as osteogenesis imperfecta admitted with severe disability and pain. He was diagnosed by clinical and radiological methods, treated with bisphosphonates for pain relief along with calcium and Vitamin D, and followed till 4 years.
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spelling pubmed-64779602019-04-30 Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva Kochar, Inderpal Singh Sethi, Aashish Ramachandran, Smita Int J Appl Basic Med Res Case Report Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, also known as myositis ossificans progressiva, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder (1 in 2 million). It produces a catastrophic and crippling illness in young people for which there is no effective treatment. This case report presents a case of 7-year-old child misdiagnosed as osteogenesis imperfecta admitted with severe disability and pain. He was diagnosed by clinical and radiological methods, treated with bisphosphonates for pain relief along with calcium and Vitamin D, and followed till 4 years. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6477960/ /pubmed/31041177 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_52_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title_full Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title_fullStr Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title_short Feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an Indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
title_sort feasibility of bisphosphonate therapy in an indian pediatric patient of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6477960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041177
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijabmr.IJABMR_52_18
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