… cord injury (SCI) and heterotopic ossification (HO) were treated with etidronate and followed
after therapy to determine the effects of … All patients underwent treatment with etidronate, first …

… effects of a 30-week trial of cyclical etidronate therapy (starting within 6 weeks of spinal cord
injury [… Patients: Acute SCI, within 6 weeks of injury. Thirteen SCI subjects were recruited; 6 …

… documented benefi cial effect of etidronate on the development … bioavailability of etidronate,
in this study etidronate was initially … known to have several effects on bone metabolism.19.20 …

… known chronic complication of spinal cord injury (SCI). However… etidronate also interferes
with bone mineralisation and is therefore used cyclically in order to avoid this undesirable effect…

… the effects of cyclical etidronate (n = 6) or conventional rehabilitation without etidronate (n =
7) … Only patients who became ambulatory and received etidronate had preservation of BMD …

… Etidronate produced long-term benefit in lower limb bone mineral density (BMD) in selected
… The aminobisphosphonate, alendronate (1000 times more potent than etidronate), in an …

… The random distribution of women was asymmetrical, so we analysed the effect of treatment
on men. In the total left hip, the mean (SD) decrease in bone mass was −22.791% (10.768) …

… on the prevention of HO among the patients with spinal cord injury. The prevention … the
prevention effect of EHDP on HO formation among the patients with spinal cord injury. …

… density (BMD) in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Twenty-eight subjects with …
Cyclical etidronate: its e൵ect on bone density in patients with acute spinal cord injury. Arch …

… No clinically detectable side effects were attributable to the … complication in the spinal cord
injury patient. The incidence of … disodium etidronate in the unaffected spinal cord injury patient…