Clinical Focus Series: Bone and Mineral Disorders

• Provides latest advances in diagnosis and management of bone and mineral disorders
• Part of the renowned Clinical Focus series
• Focus on skeletal and mineral homeostasis and the role of calcium and vitamin D as nutritional supplements
• Each chapter highly illustrated with tables and images
• Internationally recognised editor and author team led by US-based expert in the field

1. Skeletal and Mineral Homeostasis
2. Vitamin D: Skeletal and Nonskeletal Effects
3. Nutritional Aspects of Calcium and Vitamin D: Global Prospective
4. Disorders of Phosphorus Metabolism
5. Rickets and Osteomalacia
6. Parathyroid Hormone Independent Hypercalcemia
7. Primary Hyperparathyroidism in the Indian Context
8. Hypocalcemic Disorders
9. Diagnosis of Osteoporosis
10. Management of Osteoporosis
11. Osteoporosis: Antiresorptive Drug Therapy
12. Anabolic Agents for Treatment of Osteoporosis
Appendix 1: Interpreting Interventional Studies for Osteoporosis
Index

Romesh K Khardori MD PhD FACP FRCP(C)
Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School; Consultant, EVMS Strelitz Centre for Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, Norfolk, Virginia, USA