Evidence for increased clinical severity of familial and sporadic Paget's disease of bone in Campania, southern Italy
| Autor: | RENDINA, DOMENICO, STRAZZULLO, PASQUALE, MOSSETTI, GIUSEPPE, GENNARI L, DE FILIPPO G, MERLOTTI D, DE CAMPORA E, FAZIOLI F, SCARANO G, NUTI R, J. BONE MINER R.E.S. DEC |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Rendina, Domenico, Gennari, L, DE FILIPPO, G, Merlotti, D, DE CAMPORA, E, Fazioli, F, Scarano, G, Nuti, R, Strazzullo, Pasquale, Mossetti, Giuseppe, Dec, J. BONE MINER R. E. S., L., Gennari, G. D., Filippo, D., Merlotti, E. d., Campora, F., Fazioli, G., Scarano, R., Nuti |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Bone disease Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Disease Environment bone epidemiology/etiology/genetics Prevalence Cohort Studies Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Genetic predisposition Prevalence Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Genetic Predisposition to Disease Aged Aged Aged Aged 80 and over Osteosarcoma business.industry 80 and over Cohort Studies Environment Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Giant Cell Tumors complications/epidemiology/genetics Osteosarcoma Paget's disease Middle Aged medicine.disease Osteitis Deformans Paget's disease of Bone Paget's disease of bone Italy Cohort epidemiology Giant Cell Tumor Female business epidemiology/etiology/genetics Humans Italy Male Middle Aged Osteitis Deforman Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 21(12) |
| ISSN: | 0884-0431 |
| Popis: | The analysis of 236 Italian patients with Paget's bone disease showed higher clinical severity and greater frequency of neoplastic degeneration among patients who live or descend from individuals living in the Campania region (southern Italy). A prevalent involvement of the spine and the skull, the sites preferentially involved in giant cell tumors complicating Paget's disease, was also shown in familial cases from this geographical region. Introduction: The Campania region in southern Italy has been recently indicated as a high prevalence area for Paget's disease of bone (PDB), and most pagetic families with multiple occurrence of neoplasms in affected members were from this geographical region. Materials and Methods: We evaluated the PDB epidemiological characteristics in 125 patients from Campania in comparison with 111 patients from other Italian regions. Twenty-three patients from Campania and 26 patients from other Italian areas had at least one first-degree relative affected by PDB (familial cases). The remaining patients made up the sporadic cases. Results: Among subjects from Campania, the patients in the familial group tended to come from larger families and showed at diagnosis higher serum total alkaline phosphatase, larger extension of disease, and earlier mean age with respect to patients with PDB of the sporadic group. The skull, spine, and humerus were the sites preferentially involved in the familial cases. In contrast, no such differences were observed between familial and sporadic PDB cases among patients from the other geographical areas, except for a lower age at diagnosis. An increased PDB clinical severity was finally observed in the PDB cohort from Campania in comparison with patients from other Italian regions. Neoplastic degeneration of pagetic bones (osteosarcoma and giant cell tumor) was exclusively observed in patients with polyostotic PDB from Campania. Conclusions: We showed a higher clinical severity of PDB with occurrence of neoplastic degeneration in the high prevalence area of Campania, with its maximum expression in cases with familial disease. This peculiar pattern might be traced to genetic predisposition and/or to the abnormal impact of a still undefined environmental trigger. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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