Rheumatology | European Federation of Internal Medicine

Rheumatology (Greek ρεύμα, rheuma, river) is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to diagnosis and therapyof rheumatic diseases. Clinicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders.

VIDEO: Dr. Fauci: What you need to know about chikungunya

Posted on: 29/07/2014 - 21:15

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 17 reported the first two cases in the United States of locally acquired chikungunya –but the

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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New insights emerge from pediatric chronic cutaneous lupus

Posted on: 28/07/2014 - 14:55

COEUR D’ALENE, ID. – Pediatric chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus transforms into systemic disease in one-quarter of cases, and if it’s going to do so, it’ll typically be within the first year...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Depression may run with opiate use in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Posted on: 25/07/2014 - 19:15

NEW YORK – Patients with ankylosing spondylitis who used opiate analgesics were five times more likely to report depression than were those who did not, in a retrospective case-control study of 611...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Most kneecap pain can be managed conservatively

Posted on: 24/07/2014 - 21:00

SEATTLE – In about 80% of patients, patellofemoral knee pain is due to muscular dysfunction and often responds to strengthening and other conservative measures, according to Dr. Christian Lattermann...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Cardiovascular risk remains difficult to characterize in ankylosing spondylitis

Posted on: 24/07/2014 - 18:20

NEW YORK – Consistent evidence for a substantial increase in cardiovascular events remains elusive for patients with ankylosing spondylitis who have a broad range of CV risk factors. "We can...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

New guidelines proposed for nail involvement in psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 23/07/2014 - 21:45

NEW YORK – A consensus group has developed evidence-based treatment recommendations for patients with psoriatic arthritis and nail involvement and raised the possibility of issuing them independent...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Early biologics may halt ankylosing spondylitis progression

Posted on: 23/07/2014 - 20:15

NEW YORK – Late initiation of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis more than doubles their risk of radiographic worsening, according to a prospective study that...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Patients with psoriatic arthritis perform accurate joint counts

Posted on: 23/07/2014 - 18:55

NEW YORK – After instruction by a nurse, patients with psoriatic arthritis do at least as well as nurses but better than physicians in counting tender and swollen joints, according to a...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

FDA needs convincing on nonradiologic axial spondyloarthritis

Posted on: 22/07/2014 - 21:35

NEW YORK – There appears to be progress in the effort to convince the Food and Drug Administration that nonradiologic axial spondyloarthritis is a viable disease entity that deserves to be the target...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

First comorbidity guidelines drafted for psoriatic arthritis

Posted on: 22/07/2014 - 18:05

NEW YORK – For the first time, the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis is preparing evidence-based treatment recommendations for the diagnosis and management of the...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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