title: [Severe osteoporosis in a patient with polycythaemia vera].
abstract: This case report is about severe osteoporosis in a woman known with polycythaemia vera (PV). A 51-year-old woman with hereditary predisposition to osteoporosis had a dual X-ray absorptiometry scan without osteoporosis. Only one year later she was diagnosed with PV. Re-scan eight years later showed progression to severe osteoporosis. Whether this is secondary osteoporosis, initiated or accelerated by the presence of PV is not known. A recent Danish registry study has shown that PV patients have an increased incidence of fractures compared with the general population.
authors.affiliation: Hæmatologisk Afdeling, Odense Universitetshospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense. E-mail: mailtilsarah@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Farmer
authors.forename: Anne Pernille
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: Hanne
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vestergaard
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D050815:Fractures, Compression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D058866:Osteoporotic Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D011087:Polycythemia Vera / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology