Pregnancy_and_lactation-associated_osteoporosis
Pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis
Medical condition
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]
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]