Open AccessSevere congestive heart failure in elderly patient with Paget’s disease
Author(s) -
Lorenzo Palleschi,
Eleonora Nunziata
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
geriatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2465-1397
pISSN - 2465-1109
DOI - 10.4081/gc.2017.6727
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , heart failure , skeleton (computer programming) , bone pain , disease , bone disease , bone remodeling , surgery , cardiology , osteoporosis , anatomy
Paget’s disease of bone is characterized by focal areas of increased bone turnover, affecting one or several bones throughout the skeleton. Paget’s disease is often asymptomatic, but can be associated with bone pain and other skeletal and non-skeletal complications. We report a case of a 84-year old woman who presented a clinical condition suggesting Paget’s disease of bone complicated by congestive heart failure