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Key: | Protein | Mutation | Event | Anatomy | Negation | Speculation | Pain term | Disease term |
Changes in serum or urine levels of bALP, PINP, DKK-1, NTX-I, PTH and calcium were analyzed by comparison of the value of each marker at a given time point with the same marker pre-treatment using a Wilcoxon signed rank test. | |||||||||||||||
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Symptomatic response to pamidronate correlated closely with the rate of bone resorption; it was more frequent in those patients with an initial NTx value of < 2 times the upper limit of normal (17 of 27, 62%) and in those where the level of Ntx returned to normal (19 of 32, 59%), than in the patients with either high baseline values of NTx (> 2 times the upper limit of normal) or Ntx levels which failed to normalise for whom the response frequencies were 2 of 16 (13%) and 0 of 11 (0%), respectively. | |||||||||||||||
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No changes of NTx, IL-6, beta2-microglobulin, CRP or skeletal events were observed in patients of group II, while paraprotein was significantly reduced after 6 months of treatment. | |||||||||||||||
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