Open AccessAbout castration in osteomalacia
Author(s) -
Arkady Rutkovskiy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
žurnalʺ akušerstva i ženskihʺ boleznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0461
pISSN - 1683-9366
DOI - 10.17816/jowd74360-361
Subject(s) - medicine , osteomalacia , skeleton (computer programming) , endocrinology , bone marrow , anatomy , osteoporosis
Osteomalacia is mainly reduced to changes in the bones - they lose their mineral substances and along with this, abrupt changes occur in the organic structure of bones and in the bone marrow - and the bone and bone marrow soften. Along with this, degenerative changes occur in the muscular system. The clinical picture is first expressed by pain in different parts of the skeleton, early fatigue, increased reflexes; then, with strong development, bone curvature, persistent catarrh of the respiratory and digestive tract; patients die with symptoms of insanity. The disease lasts from 1 to 10 years and affects mainly women who have already given birth. Neither poverty nor prolonged feeding seems to matter.