Sixty-three-year-old woman requested medical attention for osteoporosis. Bone densitometry revealed: Tspine (L1-L4)= -3.5 SD [Bone mineral density (BMD): 0.766 g/cm2]. Tfemoral neck= -2.4 SD (BMD: 0.716 g/cm2). She has been in calcium and vitamin D supplementation for 2 years. She informed a 5-year-history of hypothyroidism in levothyroxine replacement. Alendronate sodium 70 mg/week was initiated with significant increase in BMD in the first year (6.1% equally in spine and femoral neck). After a 5-year follow-up, the patient presented with weight loss, […]