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Occurrence of Metabolic Osteopathy in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis

Authors

DUJSIKOVA Hana DITE Petr TOMANDL Josef SEVCIKOVA Arona PRECECHTELOVÁ Marie

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Pancreatology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Other specializations of internal medicine
Keywords chronic pancreatitis;vitamin D;osteopenia;osteomalacia
Description Osteopathy was found out in 39 % of patients with chronic pancreatitis, from them osteopenia in 26 %, osteoporosis in 5 % and osteomalacia in 8 % cases. On the occurrence of relatively high percentage of metabolic osteopathies in patients with chronic pancreatitis probably participate, namely in advanced stages of disease, the malabsorption by invading of enterohepatic circulation of vitamin D, in initial forms of pancreatitis it is not possible exclude on progress of osteopathy changes of intestinal flora with disturbance of vitamin D addition to intestinal mucose.

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