title: Bisphosphonates in Paget's disease.
abstract: Paget's disease is the best example of a common high turnover bone disease. A review of the early use of bisphosphonates in the treatment of this condition shows that many of the fundamental therapeutic issues were identified using drugs which by today's standards were far from ideal. Over the succeeding decades there has been a steady increase in potency culminating in the introduction of intravenous zoledronic acid which is capable of inducing long term remissions which were unthinkable when bisphosphonates were first introduced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. i.reid@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Ian R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Hosking
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004164:Diphosphonates / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D004164:Diphosphonates