Bone metabolism dynamics in the early post-transplant period following kidney and liver transplantation.

Bone disease contributes to relevant morbidity after solid organ transplantation. Vitamin D has a crucial role for bone metabolism. Activation of vitamin D depends on the endocrine function of both, liver and kidney. Our study assessed key markers of bone metabolism at time of transplantation and 6...

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Main Authors: Peter W Schreiber, Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari, Katia Boggian, Marco Bonani, Christian van Delden, Natalia Enriquez, Thomas Fehr, Christian Garzoni, Hans H Hirsch, Cédric Hirzel, Oriol Manuel, Pascal Meylan, Lanja Saleh, Maja Weisser, Nicolas J Mueller, Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5770064?pdf=render