Some Disease Treated by Rheumatologist

Specializing in Treatment of all Rheumatic Diseases/ Autoimmune diseases/ arthritis/ musculoskeletal disorders.
The rheumatic diseases show peculiar presentations, multisystem involvement and chronicity. The need periodic monitoring and medications for long duration.

Degenerative arthropathies

  Osteoarthritis –Osteoarthritis Knees, Cervical & Lumbar spondylosis

Inflammatory arthropathies

  Rheumatoid arthritis

  Spondyloarthropathies

  Ankylosing spondylitis

  Reactive arthritis (Reactive arthropathy)

  Psoriatic arthritis (Psoriatic arthropathy)

  Enteropathic spondylitis

  Seronegative arthritis

  SAPHO

  Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

Arthropathies associated with endocrine, haematological & metabolic condition

Systemic conditions and connective tissue diseases

  Lupus

  Sjögren’s syndrome

  Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)

  Polymyositis

  Dermatomyositis

  Polymyalgia rheumatica

  Mixed connective tissue disease

  Relapsing Polychondritis

  Sarcoidosis

Vasculitis

  Microscopic Polyangiitis

  Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Churg-Strauss Syndrome)

  granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis)

  Polyarteritis nodosa

  Henoch-Schönlein purpura

  Serum sickness

  Giant cell arteritis, Temporal arteritis

  Takayasu’s arteritis

  Behçet’s syndrome

  Kawasaki’s disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)

Buerger’s disease (thromboangiitis obliterans) Soft tissue diseases and lesions affecting the joints and structures around the joints including tendons, ligaments capsules, bursae, stress fractures, muscles, nerve entrapment, vascular lesions, and ganglia. (tendinitis, bursitis) For example:

  Low back pain, neck pain

  Shoulder pain ie – Frozen shoulder

  Carpel tunnel syndrome

  Elbow pain i.e – Tennis elbow, Golfer’s elbow, Olecranon bursitis

Crystal deposition disorders

  Gout

  Pseudo gout

Metabolic bone disease

  Osteoporosis

  Osteomalacia

  Paget disease

Infective arthritis

  Septic arthritis

  Post viral arthritis – post dengue, post chikungunia arthritis

  Osteomyelitis

  Osteoarticular Tuberculosis

  Hansens disease

  Brucellosis

Others

  Polymyalgia rheumatica

  Complex regional pain syndromes

  Fibromyalgia

  Sports and exercise medicine

  Raynaud’s phenomenon

  Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

  Back pain- pain that usually originates from the muscles, nerves, bones, joints or other structures in the spine.

  Knee pain- patellofemoral pain syndrome

  Various aches and pain in body

  Sarcoidosis

  Erythema Nodosum

  Avascular Necrosis of bone (AVN)

  Reflex Sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (RSDS)

  Remitting Seronegative symmetrical synovitis with Pitting Edema (RS3PE)

  Relapsing Polychondritis