Abstracts tagged "osteoporosis and polymyalgia rheumatica"

Abstract Number: 895 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incidence of Osteoporotic Mayor Fractures in a Cohort of Patients with Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Luciano Enrique Pompermayer¹, Ignacio Javier Gandino¹, Maximiliano José Martinez¹, Florencia Beatriz Mollerach¹, Marina Scolnik², Javier Rosa¹ and Enrique R. Soriano¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Fundacion PM Catoggio, Argentina., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is an inflammatory disease associated with older age and long term use of glucocorticoids. As such a high incidence of osteoporosis…