Medical Articles

Medical articles can be extremely informative, but also extremely scientific. Please keep in mind that they were designed for an audience of physicians and scientists.

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Other Recommended Reading
We have also put together a list of general articles designed for a lay (non medical) audience. Many of these articles also focus on FOP research efforts.

Medline Search
Searching the Medline database is now a free service. Articles may be under the terms fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva or myositis ossificans progressiva.


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ARTICLES FROM MEDICAL JOURNALS ( Recent)
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Proximal Tibial Osteochondromas in Patients with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2008)
Dysregulated BMP Signaling and Enhanced Osteogenic Differentiation of Connective Tissue Progenitor Cells From Patients With Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (2008)
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology,
Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 191–205, 2008
Morphogen Receptor Genes and Metamorphogenes: Skeleton Keys to Metamorphosis
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2007)
Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Contribution to Ectopic Skeletogenesis
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2007)

Developmental Anolomalies of the Cervical Spine in Patients with Fibrodysplasia Ossifans Prgressiva are Distinctly Different from Those in Patients with Klippel-Feil Syndrome: Clues from the BMP Signaling Pathway
SPINE (2005)

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), a disorder of Ectopic Osteogenesis, Misregulates Cell Surface Expression and Trafficking of BMPRIA*
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (2005)

Influenza-like Viral Illnesses and Flare-ups of FOP
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (2004)

In Vivo Somatic Cell Gene Transfer of an Engineered Noggin Mutein Prevents BMP 4-Induced Heterotopic Ossification Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2003)

Paresis of a Bone Morphogenetic Protein-Antagonist Response in a Genetic Disorder of Heterotopic Skeletogenesis
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (2003)
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: Deciphering the Molecular Pathways of Ectopic Skeletogenesis
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (2002)

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ARTICLES FROM MEDICAL JOURNALS (Archived)

Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a Heritable Disorder of Severe Heterotopic Ossification, Maps to Human Chromosome 4q27-31.
American J. of Human Genetics, 66 (2000)
Linkage exclusion and mutational analysis of the noggin gene in patients with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Clinical Genetics 58 (2000)
Conductive Hearing Loss in Individuals with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
American Journal of Audiology (June 1999)
Catastrophic Falls in Patients who have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research (1998)
Traumatic Fractures of Heterotopic Bone in Patients who have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: A Report of Two Cases
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (1995)
Mild Expression of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: A Report of Three Cases
Journal of Rheumatology (1995)
The Natural History of Heterotopic Ossificatgion in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: A study of Forty-Four Patients - based on a survey of IFOPA members
The Journal of Bone and Joint Survey by Cohen et al (1994)
Characterization of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 Receptor in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Pulmonary and Cardiac Function in advanced Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
The Genetics of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Treatment of Patients Who Have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva with Isotretinoin
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: Why Do Some People Have Two Skeletons
Journal of Clinical Rheumatology (1997)
Limb swelling in patients who have Fibroysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Clinical Orthopaedics & related Research #336 (1997)
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: Report of a case with guidelines for pediatric dental and anesthesia management.
Journal of Dentistry for Children (Nov-Dec. 1996)
Overexpression of an Osteogenic Morhpogen in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
The New England Journal of Medicine, by A.B. Shafritz et al: an illustrated report of the experiments with BMP 4 (Aug. 1996)
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: Searching for the Skeleton Key Calcified Tissue International (1995)
Spinal Deformity in Patients who have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (1995)
Permanent heterotopic ossification at the injection site after Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis immunization in children who have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Journal of Pediatrics (May 1995)
Severe restriction in jaw movement after routine injection of local anesthetic in patients who have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.
Mosby-Year Book (1995) Oral Surgery (1995)
Submandibular swelling in patients with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva. Presented at the American Society for Bone & Mineral Research (Sept. 1994)
FOP: "A Clue from the Fly" by Zasloff et al - received worldwide attention for innovatively drawing relationships between the developmental stages of FOP and the developmental stages of a fly (extremely scientific) (1992)
Treatment of Traumatic Myositis Ossificans with Acetic Acid Iontophoresis - Documented case by Deborah L. Wieder, PT (1991)

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