Bone Abstracts

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease that usually affects women during the childbearing ages. The disease can affect any organ system and varies in its clinical manifestations and severity between individuals. The disease course is characterized by relapses and remissions.Because survival of SLE patients has improved dramatically over the last decades, attention is now more focused on complications of the disease...

Fracture outpatient (FO) clinics aim to identify individuals at high fracture risk. Identification of individuals at high fracture risk has been improved since the introduction of vertebral fracture assessment (VFA). Unfortunately, participation rates in FO clinics are often low.The aim of this study is to i) assess the contributory value of VFA in addition to BMD measurements in identifying individuals with high fracture risk; ii) assess characteristics...

Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare inflammatory rheumatic disease that has been associated with an increased risk of low bone mineral density (BMD). However, data on risk factors associated with bone loss in SSc are scarce. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of and the risk factors for low BMD in patients with SSc.Methods: Cross-sectional data of 61 patients with SSc were collected. BMD in the lumbar spine, total hip a...

Background: Recently, we showed that treatment with COBRA-light therapy including prednisone with initially 30 mg/day was as effective as the original COBRA scheme, with initially 60 mg/day (Ter Wee, ARD 2015), in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Since high-dose glucocorticoids are associated with bone loss, we investigated the differences in bone mineral density (BMD) after 1 year of treatment in both arms.Objective: To determine whether ther...

Objective: Increase the percentage of elderly fracture patients undergoing a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measurement, and investigate why some patients did not respond to invitation to our fracture liaison service (FLS).Materials and methods: In four Dutch hospitals, fracture patients ≥50 years were invited for a DXA measurement and visit to our FLS. Patients who did not respond, were contacted by telephone. In patients diagnosed with os...