Abstracts tagged "HR-pQCT and treatment"

Abstract Number: 1997 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Detection of Progression of Radiographic Damage Despite Early and Targeted Therapy in Inflammatory Arthritis Using High-Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography
Sarah Manske^1,2, Stephanie Finzel³, Steven K. Boyd⁴ and Cheryl Barnabe⁵, ¹Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ⁴Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Early initiation of DMARDs and targeted therapy to achieve remission are said to offer the best opportunity to prevent radiographic damage in early inflammatory…