Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Bone densitometry by DXA is now considered routine part of clinical management of children at risk of osteoporosis. Data on activity of a paediatric DXA service would be helpful for service planning but are currently lacking.Aim: A survey of referrals to the service and size-adjusted total body (TB) and lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral content for bone-area standard deviation scores (BMC for BA SDS) were obtained from the local database.<p ...

Introduction: Children with chronic renal failure may grow poorly and have altered bone metabolism and body composition. Post-renal transplant (Tx), improvement in these parameters may be hindered due to glucocorticoid exposure.Aims & methods: To study changes in these parameters after Tx, anthropometry, bone mineral content (BMC) at total body (TB) and lumber spine (LS), lean mass (LM) and fat mass (FM) were analysed by DXA in 15 children (median ag...