Brittle bone disease

Introduction: Brittle bone disease

Description of Brittle bone disease

Brittle bone disease (medical condition): A group of rare inherited diseases that involves fragile bones. There are many different types based on the severity and extent of symptoms. Some types are severe enough to cause stillbirth or infant death whereas other types may cause few if any problematic symptoms.

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Lobstein disease:
  »Introduction: Lobstein disease
  »Symptoms of Lobstein disease

Brittle bone disease: Autosomal dominant COLLAGEN DISEASES resulting from defective biosynthesis of COLLAGEN TYPE I and characterized by brittle, osteoporotic, and easily fractured bones. It may also present with blue sclerae, loose joints, and imperfect dentin formation. There are four major types, I-IV.
Source: Diseases Database

Brittle bone disease: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Brittle bone disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Brittle bone disease, or a subtype of Brittle bone disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Brittle bone disease as a "rare disease".

Source - Orphanet

Brittle bone disease as a Disease

Brittle bone disease: Another name for Lobstein disease (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Lobstein disease
  »Symptoms of Lobstein disease

Symptoms of Brittle bone disease (Lobstein disease)

Some of the symptoms of Brittle bone disease incude:

• Fractures
• Fragile bones
• Bone deformity
• Blue sclerae
• Hearing loss

See full list of 36 symptoms of Brittle bone disease (Lobstein disease)

Terms associated with Brittle bone disease:

Terms Similar to Brittle bone disease:

• Osteogenesis imperfecta

Source: Diseases Database

• OI
• Osteogenesis imperfecta

Source - NIH

The following terms can be used for Brittle bone disease

• osteogenesis imperfecta

Source: CRISP

External links related to: Brittle bone disease

• GeneReviews: Osteogenesis Imperfecta
• OMIM - OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA CONGENITA; OIC
• OMIM - OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, PROGRESSIVELY DEFORMING, WITH NORMAL SCLERAE
• OMIM - OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, TYPE I
• Osteogenesis imperfecta - Genetics Home Reference
• eMedicine - Osteogenesis Imperfecta : Article by Mandar A Pattekar, MD, MS
• OMIM - OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, TYPE IV
• osteogenesis imperfecta

Source: Diseases Database

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