Abstract
Bone atrophy accompanying spinal cord injury (SCI) progresses over time.
We assessed bone atrophy in eight SCI patients, using the following parameters: serum calcium, phosphorus, parathormone, calcitonin, vitamin D and osteocalcin; urinary calcium, phosphorus and hydroxyproline; and QCT.
All our results show that the patients lacked vitamin D and their bone metabolism was high because of high osteocalcin levels, while their bone mass was less than that of controls.
