ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1246 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
McCall Walker1, Harmanjot K. Grewal2, Adam Janot3, Mary Yu4, Sophia Cenac5, Matthew R. Lammi6,7 and Lesley Ann Saketkoo8, 1LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 2Rheumatology, Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, 3Department of Ophthalmology, Virginia Commonwealth University –Medical College of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 4Internal Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, 5Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, 6Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 7Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, LSU Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, New Orleans, LA, 8Scleroderma and Sarcoidosis Patient Care and Research Center, Rheumatology and Pulmonary Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
Background/Purpose: Sarcoidosis often involves pathological dysregulation of dependent factors of bone metabolism, e.g. calcitriol /calcium, and administration of high dose glucocorticoids (GCs) leading to low…