RESEARCH

Literature review: Fracture risk in adults with OI

Interview with Dr. Winnie Liu, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, USA Dr. Winnie Liu is an adult endocrinologist and takes care of patients at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) located in Portland, Oregon. Her clinical and research interests are metabolic bone disease with a focus on OI after joining the BBDC (Brittle…

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Clara Isabel RodriguezRESEARCH

Stem Cells and cell therapy (TERCELOI Project)

In OIFE Magazine 2-2023, we interviewed Clara I. Rodríguez who is the group leader of Stem cells and Cell therapy laboratory at Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute in Bilbao, Spain. Our laboratory focuses on the potential of human stem cells and their derivatives for the study of diseases and the development of new therapeutic strategies.…

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MEDICAL

Surgery of adults with OI – Dr. Michael To

Interview with Dr. Michael T, University of Hong Kong and Shenzhen In most countries, pediatric surgeons are not allowed to operate on adults with OI because of the way hospitals are organized. Usually, the surgery is performed by an adult physician who knows about one body part (like hip, fingers, knee, pelvis etc). What are…

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MEDICAL

Surgery of adults with OI – Dr. Guus Janus

Interview with Dr. Guus Janus, ISALA Treatment Center Zwolle, The Netherlands In most countries, pediatric surgeons are not allowed to operate on adults with OI because of the way hospitals are organized. Usually, the surgery is performed by an adult physician who knows about one body part (like hip, fingers, knee, pelvis etc). What are…

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RESEARCH

OI & fracture risk after pregnancy

Interview with Emilie Karense Lykking, newly graduate doctor from University of Southern Denmark I am a newly graduate doctor from University of Southern Denmark, who found interest in OI during my final year of Med. School. At the moment I am working at the department of endocrinology at Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen. I wrote my…

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RESEARCH

Anthropology Project About OI

Interview with Ida Vandsøe Madsen, student at the Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ida Vandsøe Madsen is a Ph.D.-student at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Anthropology is the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution. She did her Master’s Thesis (final project) on OI as…

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Do not pass sign with broken boneRESEARCH

The TOPaZ trial

Treatment of OI with Parathyroid hormone and Zoledronic acid Interview with Prof. Stuart H. Ralston, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, UK Who are you & what is your relationship to OI? I am a physician and rheumatologist with a special interest in the treatment of bone diseases. I have been taking care of patients…

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MarieYOUTH

It affects all of us

In that moment when you hear the bone break, it affects all of us. In a fraction of a second unpleasant emotions arrives. We have been here before. We will definitely be here again. We have become experts in a life with a disability. My disability. Each of us have our own ways to handle…

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