Renal Osteopathy: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).

  • Amyloidosis – extracellular (“outside the cell”) deposits of amyloids (degradation-resistant proteins) that can lead to cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease), neuropathy (peripheral nervous system disease), and hepatomegaly (liver enlargement), among other conditions.

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

  • Adynamic bone disease – form of renal osteopathy, the exact pathogenesis of which is still unclear.
  • Osteodystrophia fibrosa cystica – bone dystrophy caused by inadequate storage of mineral salts in the bone.
  • Osteomalacia (bone softening), aluminum-associated.

Further

  • Osteopathy after kidney transplantation