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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2022

Is Adynamic Bone Always a Disease? Lessons from Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Eman Nagy, Mahmoud M Sobh, Mohamed Abdalbary, Sherouk Elnagar, Rabab Elrefaey, Shimaa Shabaka, Nehal Elshabrawy, Rasha Shemies, Mona Tawfik, Cássia Gomes S Santos and 2 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Eman NagyMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Mahmoud M SobhMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-2636-0966
Mohamed AbdalbaryMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1157-9770
Sherouk ElnagarMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Rabab ElrefaeyMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Shimaa ShabakaMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Nehal ElshabrawyMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Rasha ShemiesMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Mona TawfikMansoura Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt.
Cássia Gomes S SantosDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba 80060-00, PR, Brazil.
Fellype C BarretoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba 80060-00, PR, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-6394-9227
Amr El-HusseiniDivision of Nephrology & Bone and Mineral Metabolism, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9072-5029
Mansoura University · EGUniversidade Federal do Paraná · BRUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Renal osteodystrophy (ROD) is a common complication of end-stage kidney disease that often starts early with loss of kidney function, and it is considered an integral part in management of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Adynamic bone (ADB) is characterized by suppressed bone formation, low cellularity, and thin osteoid seams. There is accumulating evidence supporting increasing prevalence of ADB, particularly in early CKD. Contemporarily, it is not very clear whether it represents a true disease, an adaptive mechanism to prevent bone resorption, or just a transitional stage. Several co-players are incriminated in its pathogenesis, such as age, diabetes mellitus, malnutrition, uremic milieu, and iatrogenic factors. In the present review, we will discuss the up-to-date knowledge of the ADB and focus on its impact on bone health, fracture risk, vascular calcification, and long-term survival. Moreover, we will emphasize the proper preventive and management strategies of ADB that are pivotal issues in managing patients with CKD. It is still unclear whether ADB is always a pathologic condition or whether it can represent an adaptive process to suppress bone resorption and further bone loss. In this article, we tried to discuss this hard topic based on the available limited information in patients with CKD. More studies are needed to be able to clearly address this frequent ROD finding.

Indexed as

calcificationCKD–MBDlow bone turnovermanagementrenal osteodystrophy

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PMID36498703
PMCPMC9736225
OpenAlexW4311051953

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