Pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis
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Pregnancy- and lactation-associated osteoporosis (PLO; also known as pregnancy-related osteoporosis) is a rare early presentation of osteoporosis in which young women experience low trauma or spontaneous fractures during or soon after pregnancy or lactation.[citation needed]
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Pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis | |
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Other names | Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis (PAO) |
Specialty | OB/GYN |
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Fragility fractures of the spine are most commonly described, but the condition can be associated with other types of fracture.[1][2] The symptoms usually appear during or after a first pregnancy with the most common complaint being severe back pain[3]
The exact causes of the disease are not yet known, and most women with PLO have no known predisposing cause of osteoporosis or bone fragility.[4]