Alessandro Balducci

TL;DR: LC is a poorly absorbed, well-tolerated, and efficient phosphate binder in dialysis patients, who show almost no evolution toward low bone turnover over one year (unlike CC-treated patients), nor do they experience any aluminum-like effects on bone.

TL;DR: Results do not favor the hypothesis of a role of 7-84 PTH in bone resistance in renal osteodystrophy, and the 1-84 to 7- 84 PTH ratio is not a marker of LTO and is of no use in noninvasive histological diagnosis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some of the critical features that make these plans really strategic, including the reasons to embark on a strategic planning process; context: political, institutional, challenges ahead, problems, issues, actors, legal status of the plan in the official planning system; momentum, time frame of the plans, plan horizon, and the link with projects.

TL;DR: The determination of serum OPG levels could be of use in the diagnosis of low turnover bone disease, at least in association with PTH levels < or =300 pg/ml, which is significantly lower in the group with ABD than in those with HP or MO.

TL;DR: A positive significant correlation was found between several bone static and dynamic parameters and 25-OHD levels in the range 0 to 30 ng/mL, showing a vitamin D dependence of bone turnover at these serum levels, however, actual evidence of an effect on bone of 25- OHD deficiency was found at serum levels below 20 ng/ mL.