Is sex-hormone-binding globulin negatively correlated with femoral bone-mineral density in male cardiac-transplant recipients?
This investigation demonstrates for the first time an association between high sex-hormone-binding globulin levels and low femoral-neck bone-mineral density in a cohort of male cardiac-transplant recipients. Our data support the important role of sex-hormone-binding globulin in the pathogenesis of post-transplantation bone disease, although--possibly because of the small number of patients--we could not prove an interrelation of sex-hormone-binding globulin with vertebral fractures.
Image registration and wavelet-based fusion can improve image quality and FV repeatability; it also results in an increased FV measurement.