REMEDY FOR BONE MTABOLIC DISEASES

摘要

It is intended to provide a remedy for bone metabolic diseases which contains EPO as the active ingredient and a method of treating patients with bone metabolic diseases. In addition to the reported effect of increasing erythrocytes, a preparation containing EPO as the active ingredient is a novel preventive/remedy exerting an effect of ameliorating lesions in bone and bone marrow on patients with bone diseases, in particular, bone diseases based on bone metabolic errors. The pathological conditions to be treated therewith include bone diseases accompanied by bone metabolic errors such as osteodystrophy associating with renal failure, marble bones, diabetic nephropathy and osteoporosis.