Bone Abstracts

Purpose: The aim of our study is a micro-CT-based, longitudinal characterisation of ovariectomy, multideficient diet and corticoid therapy impact on the ossal microarchitecture.Materials and methods: Four randomized groups were formed out of 32 adult female merino land sheep:1. control2. ovariectomized (OVX)3. OVX+multideficient diet (OVX-D)4. OVX-D+320 mg methylp...

Background: Asian-specific prediction model for estimating the individual risk of osteoporotic fracture was rare. We aimed to develop a Korean fracture risk prediction model using clinical risk factors and assess external validity of the final model.Methods: A total of 718,306 Korean men and women aged 50–90 were followed for 7 years in national system based cohort study. Fifty percent were randomly assigned to the development dataset and 50% to the...

The concept of the vicious cycle of bone metastases emphasizes the cross-talk between osteoclasts, osteoblasts and tumor cells, but the role of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) is not well delineated. BMSCs comprise of a fibroblast-like cell population which adhere to culture flask and have an ability to differentiate into osteoblasts, adipocytes and chondrocytes. They express a panel of cell surface antigens which includes CD105, CD73, CD90, CD106, and CD146. In this study w...

Background: Severe vitamin D deficiency (VDD), is a common disorder, which has complications including rickets, hypocalcaemia, hypotonia, delayed development and cardiomyopathy. Although nutritional rickets associated craniosynostosis has been reported, there is little awareness of this or knowledge about its clinical course or severity. We present five cases of late onset craniosynostosis in association with nutritional rickets.Clinical presentation: Th...

Short stature and osteoporosis are common in DMD. Disease progression can be slowed by glucocorticoids but these are associated with further growth retardation and skeletal fragility. The defect in growth and skeletal development in children with DMD is probably multifactorial and not solely dependent on glucocorticoid exposure. The muscular dystrophy x-linked (mdx) mouse is the most commonly used animal model of DMD. However, its growth phenotype has not been studied...

Objectives: FGF23 is expressed in clusters of osteocytes at the trabecular periphery suggesting that FGF23-expressing osteocytes are confined to specific basic multicellular units (BMUs) at the trabecular surface. Higher numbers of FGF23-expressing osteocytes are found in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with preserved skeletal mineralization indices. We thus combined immunohistochemistry and quantitative backscattered electron imaging (qBEI) to explore the hypothesis tha...

Background: There is significant inter and intraobserver variability in diagnosing vertebral fractures in children. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of morphometric vertebral fracture analysis (MXA) using a 33-point software programme designed for adults, on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images of children.Methods: Lateral spine DXA images of 420 children aged between 5 and 18 years were retrospectively reviewed. Vertebral fracture a...

Objectives: From late 2015 a new protocol for zoledronic acid was adopted in our centre. This led to many children changing from pamidronate (PAM) to zoledronic acid (ZA) treatment. In a minority of cases the children and/or their families felt strongly that they wanted to change back to PAM. We present the characteristics of that minority and how bone turnover markers (BTMs) and bone mineral densities (BMD) changed whilst on ZA.Method: From Nov 2016 to ...

Objectives: Osteopenia is a complication of childhood cancer treatment but it is unknown to which extend this occurs in adult survivors, and which subgroups are at risk. We examined bone mineral density (BMD) and assed the relative importance of potential determinants of low BMD in very long-term adult survivors of childhood cancer.Methods: The single-center cohort study included 410 adult CCSs (median age at diagnosis: 6.6 years (range: 0–17 years)...

Introduction: We recently showed that patients with primary Sjögren Syndrome (pSS) have significantly higher bone mineral density (BMD) in the lumbar spine and femoral neck compared with healthy controls. The majority of those patients (69%) were using hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which may have favourable effects on BMD.Aim: To evaluate whether HCQ modulates human bone cells in vitro.Methods: Osteoblasts were differenti...