Strontium ranelate in fracture healing and joint pain improvement in a rheumatoid arthritis patient.

We report a 62-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who suffered a periprosthetic fracture of the femur. After five months of treatment with systemic administration of strontium ranelate, she achieved pain-free ambulation and near union of the aforementioned fracture. In addition, she reported a significant improvement of her polyarthralgia, so that she could stop taking analgesics for her underlying condition in the second month of strontium ranelate therapy. Given this unexpected result, we propose that besides its already known pharmacological effects, strontium ranelate could have an additional benefit in improving polyarthralgia in rheumatoid arthritis patients. PMID: 24554934 [PubMed]
Source: Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Clin Cases Miner Bone Metab Source Type: research