Abstracts tagged "Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 235 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Concurrence of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease: Description of a Cohort
Viktoriya Sabchyshyn¹ and Ann K. Rosenthal^2,3, ¹Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Medicine, Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, ³Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Background/Purpose: Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPDD) is an often un-recognized form of acute and chronic arthritis preferentially affecting the elderly. Some controversy exists about a…