ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2106 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Monique Bethel1, Lauren Bailey2, Frances Weaver2, Brian Le3, Stephen Burns4, Jelena Svircev4, Michael Heggeness5 and Laura Carbone6, 1Internal Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, 2Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Chicago, IL, 3Medicine, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, 4VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, WA, 5Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, 6Medicine, Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA
Background/Purpose: Patients with a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) develop osteoporosis and are at high risk for fracture. However, there is limited information on how…