U.C.L.A. Rheumatology Pathophysiology of Disease Course Lecture,
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Osteoporosis

 

Osteoporosis results in increased fragility of bone. These changes occur over many years and ultimately lead to bony fractures. Vertebral fractures are painful and disfiguring whereas hip fractures are frequently fatal.

  
Figure 14. Osteoporotic changes in the spine that occur over decades. From Dieppe Textbook of Rheumatology.  
 
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