Abstracts tagged "osteoporosis and spine involvement"

Abstract Number: 1126 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Opportunistic Computed Tomography Screening For Determining Osteoporosis In Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis and Spine Fractures
Amanda Cagan¹, Osa Emohare¹, Robert Morgan¹, David Polly² and Elie Gertner³, ¹Spine and Spinal Cord Injury, Regions Hospital, Saint Paul, MN, ²Division of Orthopedics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ³Section of Rheumatology, Regions Hospital and University of Minnesota Medical School, St. Paul, MN
Background/Purpose: In advanced disease Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is frequently associated with a reduction in bone mineral density (BMD) which contributes to pain and predisposes to…
Abstract Number: 1970 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Utility of Spine Bone Mineral Density in Fracture Prediction within the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX)
Tristan Blackburn¹, Diantha Howard² and Edward S. Leib³, ¹Rheumatology, Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, ²Medicine, Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Burlington, VT, ³Medicine, Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
Background/Purpose: Predicting which individuals are at risk to experience a fracture and modify that risk is important in preventative health. The WHO’s Fracture Risk Assesment…