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MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS
Volume 76, Issue -, Pages 56-68Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2019.10.011
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Bone remodeling; Osteoporosis; Antiresorptive; Anabolic; Bone biomechanics; Hypermineralization; Finite element analysis
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Pharmaceutical treatments can slow bone degradation, thus reducing the fracture risk inherent in osteoporosis. Antiresorptive treatments block the over-activation of osteoclasts vs osteoblasts, but the resulting decrease in bone remodeling frequency may weaken bone structure over time, with no gain in bone volume. Anabolic treatments, however, induce gain in bone volume. The quantitative results from existing studies on the effects of treatments over time are general and non-patient-specific, while numerical models simulating evolution of patient-specific bone microarchitecture consider a spatially random distribution of the remodeling process. Here, we propose a new approach to simulate the remodeling over decades of an individual patient's bone microarchitecture, based on the hypothesis that the oldest sites, which are hypermineralized and more brittle, are remodeled first. Taking these older sites as prime targets of remodeling, simulations show that severe osteoporosis profoundly degrades the mechanical properties of the bone structure, which can be restored and even improved by anabolic, more than by antiresorptive, therapies. (C) 2019 IPEM. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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