The scientific study winner of the ISCD Abstract Award 2020
“Use of REMS technology in patients with spine artifacts.: A new diagnostic opportunity”
M.D. Tomai Pitinca, C. Caffarelli, S. Gonnelli
Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Presented at : International Society for Clinical Densitometry Congress 2020
Highlight:
Spinal conditions such as osteoarthritis, vertebral fractures, vertebroplasty are known to result in an overestimation of the BMD parameter when calculated by the traditional bone densitometry DXA. In this study, 86 women underwent REMS and DXA scan on both axial sites, showing a high correlation between the two methods regarding the femoral results, but not on the lumbar site, where REMS resulted in a significant lower BMD compared to DXA. The study proves the high reliability of REMS in BMD estimation, being more accurate then DXA in patients carrying spinal conditions and therefore, widening towards new clinical applications.
Fragility Score Publication
“Fragility Score: a REMS‑based indicator for the prediction of incident fragility fractures at 5 years” Paola Pisani1 Francesco Conversano1 Maurizio Muratore2 Giovanni Adami3 Maria Luisa Brandi4 Carla Cafarelli5 Ernesto Casciaro1 Marco Di Paola1 Roberto...
REMS in Nefrology
PAPER OF THE MONTH BY ESCEO Prestigious recognition from ESCEO for REMS applied to dialysis patients Finally diagnosis and monitoring are also available to dialysis patients: REMS technology offers new and great opportunities also for this category of fragile...
REMS in Springer book
Pulse-Echo Measurements of Bone Tissues. Techniques and Clinical Results at the Spine and Femur The Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 1364) now provides a review of the available pulse-echo approaches for the quantitative...
