Abstracts tagged "rheumatic disease and teriparatide"

Abstract Number: 2259 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Changes in serum Soluble RANKL and Osteoprotegerin Levels after Teriparatide Administration in Rheumatic Disease Patients with Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Makoto Kaburaki, Kaichi Kaneko, Kotaro Shikano, Mai Kawazoe, Emiko Shindo, Hiroshi Sato, Natsuki Fujio, Sei Muraoka, Nahoko Tanaka, Tatsuhiro Yamamoto, Natsuko Kusunoki, Tomoko Hasunuma, Shinichi Kawai and Shotaro Masuoka, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose ,Osteoporosis is one of the serious complications of systemic glucocorticoid therapy. Reduced bone formation is the key process in patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP),…