In refractory jaw osteonecrosis, 62.5% of teriparatide-treated subjects showed one stage of improvement.
In plain wordsIn refractory jaw osteonecrosis, 62.5% of teriparatide-treated patients improved by one stage.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- Not applicableOne-stage BRONJ improvement
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 20 μg daily · subcutaneous · 6 monthsAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Subjects with one stage of BRONJ improvement
- 62.5%
- teriparatide group
Source sentences
In the TPTD group, 62.5% of the treated subjects showed one stage of improvement and the other 37.5% demonstrated a marked improvement, including two stages of improvement or complete healing, and there was not a single case that did not improve.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Twenty-four cases of intractable BRONJ were included: 15 subjects were assigned to the TPTD group and the other 9 subjects, who refused TPTD administration, were assigned to the non-TPTD group.
All subjects in both groups continued calcium and vitamin D supplementation and the TPTD group additionally received a daily subcutaneous injection of 20 μg TPTD for 6 months.