Welcome to Cases in Deprescribing. In this series, I will present a common clinical scenario drawn from my own practice, and hopefully familiar to virtually all of our readers. I will tell you what I plan to do, but I am more interested in crowdsourcing a response from all of you to collectively determine best practice.
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Case Presentation
You are seeing a 70-year-old white woman for a routine follow-up visit. Her history is significant for type 2 diabetes, stage 3 chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 47 mL/min/m2), hypertension, and osteoporosis. Her body mass index is 32 kg/m2.
She began treatment with alendronate weekly 5 years ago after dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) revealed a T score in the osteoporosis range (T = -2.60). However, she has never sustained a fracture, and her family history is negative for both osteoporosis and fracture. She is a nonsmoker. She recalls using prednisone for a week about 15 years ago when she had a bad rash.
Her current medication regimen includes:
Benazepril;
Amlodipine;
Metformin;
Pioglitazone;
Atorvastatin;
Calcium with vitamin D; and
Alendronate.
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Cite this: When to Stop the Bisphosphonate - Medscape - May 31, 2019.
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