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CHAPTER 31

Metabolic bone disease


Timothy Cundy  •  Ian R. Reid  •  Andrew Grey

CHAPTER OUTLINE

BONE BIOLOGY  604 BONE DISEASE IN PRIMARY


Anatomy of bone  604 HYPERPARATHYROIDISM  628
Bone matrix proteins  605 Clinical, biochemical and histological
Cellular elements of bone  607 features  628
Biochemical markers of bone turnover  609 Treatment  629

OSTEOPOROSIS  613 PAGET DISEASE OF BONE  629


Causes of osteoporosis  614 Epidemiology  629
Investigation and diagnosis  615 Aetiology  629
Treatment  617 Natural history  629
Pathology  630
OSTEOMALACIA  620
Clinical features  630
Calciopenic osteomalacia  620
Investigations  630
Phosphopenic osteomalacia  622
Responses to treatment  631
Osteomalacia and acidosis  623
Defective osteoblast function and BONE TURNOVER AND BONE DISEASE
osteomalacia  623 IN CHILDREN  632
CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE – MINERAL AND GENETIC BONE DISEASES  632
BONE DISORDER  624 Osteogenesis imperfecta  632
Aetiology  624 High bone mass  634
Clinical features  625 Other disorders  634
Investigations  625
CONCLUSION  634
Treatment  627
Bone disease after renal transplantation  628 APPENDICES  635

BONE BIOLOGY elements of bone can be packed together without inter-


vening marrow spaces to form cortical or compact bone,
The principal role of the skeleton is a structural one, or they can form an interlacing meshwork of trabeculae
maintaining body shape, providing protection for inter- referred to as cancellous or trabecular bone. The diaph-
nal organs and, together with the neuromuscular system, ysis of the long bone consists mainly of cortical bone,
making locomotion possible. It also has an important whereas the metaphysis and epiphysis have a greater
secondary role in mineral homoeostasis, functioning as quantity of trabecular bone, enclosed within a thin corti-
a reservoir for calcium ions in particular. Metabolic bone cal envelope. Some 80% of the weight of an adult human
diseases can affect both these functions. skeleton consists of cortical bone. However, the surface-
to-volume ratio of trabecular bone is very much higher
than that of cortical bone and it is metabolically much
Anatomy of bone more active.
Macroscopic
Microscopic
The anatomist classifies bones as being either flat (e.g.
skull, scapula, mandible, ilium) or long (e.g. the limb At a microscopic level, bone consists of matrix (~35% by
bones). Flat bones result from intramembranous ossifi- volume), mineral (~60%) and cells (<5%). The matrix is
cation; long bones predominantly from endochondral predominantly type I collagen fibres, usually organized
ossification. A long bone consists of a shaft (diaphysis) in layers within which the fibres are parallel to one an-
broadening at either end into an epiphysis. The transi- other. In adult bone, the fibre orientation varies from
tional zone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis is one layer to the next and this is referred to as lamellar
termed the metaphysis. On sectioning a long bone, two bone. If deposited along a flat surface, the lamellae will
patterns of organization of bone tissue are found. The be parallel to that surface, but in cortical bone they are

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