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Ivna Olic1, Piero Marin Zivkovic1, Ivana Tadin Hadjina1
1Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Split, Spinciceva 1, 21000 Split, Croatia.
Abstract:
Subjects with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) have a higher opportunity for fractures due to the inflammatory potential of the disorder and because of the glucocorticoid therapy that is often inevitable. The fracture risk can be assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and can also be combined with assessing the trabecular bone score (TBS). The evaluation of the TBS offers additional advantages in particular conditions, such as glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, and thus optimizes the fracture risk evaluation in the IBD subject group. A limited number of studies involving TBS in other digestive diseases is unlikely to provide sufficient evidence regarding the usefulness of TBS in gastroenterology. Our aim is to review the clinical utility of TBS in digestive diseases.
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