mineralization Archives - ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstract Number: 2183 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Relation of Intra-Articular Knee Mineralization on CT to Knee Pain in People with or at Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis
Tuhina Neogi¹, John Lynch ², Mohamed Jarraya ³, David Felson ⁴, Na Wang ¹, Michael Nevitt ², James Torner ⁵, Beth Lewis ⁶ and Ali Guermazi ¹, ¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Darby, ⁴Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, Boston, ⁵University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa City, ⁶University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Intra-articular (i.a.) calcium crystal deposition is common in knee osteoarthritis (OA), particularly in end-stage disease. It is possible that low-grade inflammation related to crystals…

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