Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants
Aim. To provide bone status assessment in infancy using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) applied to second metacarpus.Methods. 103 healthy term infants and 3 patients with rickets, aged ≤ 12 months, underwent metacarpal QUS evaluation using QUS DBM Sonic Aurora IGEA (MO, Italy), which measures speed of...
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| author | Francesco Savino Serena Viola Stefania Benetti Simone Ceratto Valentina Tarasco Maria Maddalena Lupica Luca Cordero di Montezemolo |
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| description | Aim. To provide bone status assessment in infancy using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) applied to second metacarpus.Methods. 103 healthy term infants and 3 patients with rickets, aged ≤ 12 months, underwent metacarpal QUS evaluation using QUS DBM Sonic Aurora IGEA (MO, Italy), which measures speed of sound (mcSOS) and bone transmission time (mcBTT).Results. In the total sample, median (interquartile range) of mcSOS was 1640.00 (26.0) m/s and mcBTT 0.82 (0.21) µs. Moreover, reference values for age were obtained based on estimation of the lower and upper percentiles. We observed a statistical significant difference between groups of age for mcSOS (p = 0.016). In a multiple linear regression model, we found a relation between age at enrolment and mcSOS (β = −0.608; p = 0.000) and mcBTT (β = −0.819; p = 0.001). A positive correlation between mcSOS and mcBTT has been observed (r = 0.631; p = 0.000). All the patients with rickets showed values of mcSOS and mcBTT lower than the 10th percentile.Conclusion. Our findings show that this new simple technique appears to be a promising tool for monitoring bone mineral status in pediatric clinical practice and in early life. Furthermore, it could be considered a useful method to investigate and to monitor the role of different factors on programming of bone health and it should be tested as a new method for monitoring subjects with rickets during therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9dcdb41376e1476b8a352f6ce2eb8afc2023-12-03T09:59:27ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592013-08-011e14110.7717/peerj.141141Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infantsFrancesco Savino0Serena Viola1Stefania Benetti2Simone Ceratto3Valentina Tarasco4Maria Maddalena Lupica5Luca Cordero di Montezemolo6Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAzienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Torino, ItalyAim. To provide bone status assessment in infancy using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) applied to second metacarpus.Methods. 103 healthy term infants and 3 patients with rickets, aged ≤ 12 months, underwent metacarpal QUS evaluation using QUS DBM Sonic Aurora IGEA (MO, Italy), which measures speed of sound (mcSOS) and bone transmission time (mcBTT).Results. In the total sample, median (interquartile range) of mcSOS was 1640.00 (26.0) m/s and mcBTT 0.82 (0.21) µs. Moreover, reference values for age were obtained based on estimation of the lower and upper percentiles. We observed a statistical significant difference between groups of age for mcSOS (p = 0.016). In a multiple linear regression model, we found a relation between age at enrolment and mcSOS (β = −0.608; p = 0.000) and mcBTT (β = −0.819; p = 0.001). A positive correlation between mcSOS and mcBTT has been observed (r = 0.631; p = 0.000). All the patients with rickets showed values of mcSOS and mcBTT lower than the 10th percentile.Conclusion. Our findings show that this new simple technique appears to be a promising tool for monitoring bone mineral status in pediatric clinical practice and in early life. Furthermore, it could be considered a useful method to investigate and to monitor the role of different factors on programming of bone health and it should be tested as a new method for monitoring subjects with rickets during therapy.https://peerj.com/articles/141.pdfQuantitative ultrasoundSecond metacarpusReference valuesBone mineral statusRicketsInfants |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Savino Serena Viola Stefania Benetti Simone Ceratto Valentina Tarasco Maria Maddalena Lupica Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants PeerJ Quantitative ultrasound Second metacarpus Reference values Bone mineral status Rickets Infants |
| title | Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| title_full | Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| title_fullStr | Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| title_short | Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| title_sort | quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants |
| topic | Quantitative ultrasound Second metacarpus Reference values Bone mineral status Rickets Infants |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/141.pdf |
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