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Risk factors for fractures and avascular osteonecrosis in type 1 Gaucher disease: a study from the International Collaborative Gaucher Group (ICGG) Gaucher Registry.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Aug 2012
Khan Aneal, Hangartner Thomas, Weinreb Neal J, Taylor John S, Mistry Pramod K
Abstract excerpt
We hypothesized that overall disease activity or the severity of involvement of individual disease compartments, as measured by clinical and surrogate markers, predict the risk of avascular osteonecrosis (AVN) or fractures in type 1 Gaucher disease (GD1). We applied our risk-set matched case-control method to identify four patient groups within the International Collaborative Gaucher Group (ICGG) Gaucher Registry...
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