Bone Abstracts

Objectives: The purpose of our study was to evaluate the bone mineral accrual in children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) treated by pamidronate (PAM).Methods: In retrospective study 43 children with different types of OI were included: 17 boys (39.5%) and 26 girls (60.5%). According to clinical OI, patients were: OI I type -13 (30.2%), OI III type – 24 (55.9%) OI IV type – 4 (9.3%), OI V type 1 (2.3%) and Bruck syndrome 1 (2.3%). The standar...

Objectives: Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO) is a heterogenic group of immune-mediated inflammatory bone diseases with unclear pathogenesis. Only a few genes associated with this condition have identified. The aim of the study was to evaluate the spectrum of mutations in genes associated with primary immunodeficiency syndromes (PIDs) and autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) in the cohort of patients with early-onset CNO from North Caucasus (Dagestan and Chechnya) and asse...