THE BONE Clinic at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has been named Wales’ only Paget’s Association Centre of Excellence.
The Paget’s Disease treatment centre, which is based at University Hospital Llandough (UHL) and Cardiff Royal Infirmary (CRI), is one of only 10 centres across the UK to receive the Centre of Excellence accolade.
It started at UHL in 1992 and quickly became a Paget’s Disease Treatment Centre.
The centre holds four bone clinics each week and encourages referrals of Paget’s Disease from GPs with the assistance of the radiology and biochemistry departments.
Paget’s Disease is a metabolic bone disorder in which the normal repair and renewal process within bone is disrupted.
Symptoms include pain, deformity and fracture and it can be diagnosed by X-rays or a blood test.
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