ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2023
Radiofrequency echographic multi-spectrometry and DXA for the evaluation of bone mineral density in a peritoneal dialysis setting.
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- Comparative longitudinal assessment of bone mineral density measured with radiofrequency echographic multi-spectrometry (REMS) and dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in a cohort of peritoneal dialysis patients.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026Article
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- Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) Technology for Bone Health Status Evaluation in Kidney Transplant Recipients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- The Advantages of Radiofrequency Echographic MultiSpectrometry in the Evaluation of Bone Mineral Density in a Population with Osteoarthritis at the Lumbar Spine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Radiofrequency Echographic Multispectrometry (REMS) can Overcome the Effects of Structural Internal Artifacts and Evaluate Bone Fragility Accurately.Calcified tissue international · 2024Article
- In Vivo Assessment of Bone Quality Without X-rays.Current osteoporosis reports · 2024Review
- Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (R.E.M.S.): New Frontiers for Ultrasound Use in the Assessment of Bone Status-A Current Picture.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Fragility Score: a REMS-based indicator for the prediction of incident fragility fractures at 5 years.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe aim of this real-life cross-sectional explorative study was to compare radiofrequency echographic multi-spectrometry (REMS) with dual-energy X-rays absorptiometry (DXA) in the BMD assessment of patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD). Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between lumbar aortic calcifications (AOCs) and the DXA lumbar measurements.
methodsConsecutive patients referring to the PD clinic of our hospital were included. Lumbar spine and femur scans were acquired with both techniques (including lumbar laterolateral DXA scans). The risk assessment of two fracture risk algorithms (FRAX
results41 patients were enrolled. No significant differences were documented between the BMD T-scores measured through DXA or REMS at the femur. At the lumbar spine, the DXA anteroposterior mean T-score (- 0.49 ± 1.98) was significantly higher than both the laterolateral DXA (- 1.66 ± 0.99) and the REMS (- 2.00 ± 1.94) measurements (p < 0.01 vs both). No significant differences were found between the DXA and REMS fracture risk estimates with both algorithms. The inter-technique Cohen's k coefficient (for the worst T-score, any site) was 0.421, p < 0.001. The discrepancy between the DXA laterolateral and anteroposterior lumbar T-score was positively associated with the AOCs extent and severity (r = 0.402, p < 0.01).
conclusionsOur data showed a promising agreement, in a real-life PD setting, between DXA and REMS BMD assessment and in the consequent fracture risk estimation and confirm the AOCs interference on the diagnostic accuracy of lumbar DXA.
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