Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences on calcified tissues

ba0004p171 | (1) | ICCBH2015

Bone-muscle unit assessment with pQCT in children with inflammatory bowel disease following treatment with Infliximab

Altowati Mabrouka , Malik S , Shepherd S , P McGrogan , RK Russell , SF Ahmed , SC Wong

Objective: To evaluate bone and muscle mass in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) following infliximab (IFX) therapy.Methods: Prospective longitudinal study of 19 children (12 males), 17 crohn’s disease (CD), 1 ulcerative colitis (UC), 1 IBD unclassified (IBDU) of bone evaluation commencing treatment with IFX. Bone and muscle parameters were measured by pQCT at the non-dominant distal radius at 4 and 66% at baseline and 6 months. pQCT pa...