Abstract:Although biphosphonates showed robust efficacy in fracture prevention, recent data revealed a number of adverse events. Atypical femoral fracture is one of them. Here, a 73 year old female patient who continued alendronate therapy despite unilateral atypical femoral fracture and developed the second one on the other side one year later is presented. The purposes of this manuscript are; emphasizing atypical femoral fracture as an adverse event with increasing incidence, reviewing the knowledge about duration of… Show more
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