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.

Hold the immunomodulators for surgery? Maybe yes, maybe no

Posted on: 13/03/2014 - 20:55

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – When patients on immunosuppressive therapies need surgery, the risks of disease flare and compromised postoperative recovery and rehabilitation must be weighed against the risk of...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

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Methotrexate alone or with etanercept have equal efficacy for early inflammatory arthritis

Posted on: 13/03/2014 - 18:45

Methotrexate alone appears to be just as good as when it is combined with etanercept in reducing tender and swollen joints in patients with early inflammatory arthritis who have at least one joint...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Glucosamine no better than placebo for knee osteoarthritis

Posted on: 12/03/2014 - 14:05

Glucosamine supplements were no better than placebo at improving cartilage damage in patients with knee osteoarthritis in a randomized trial that was described by study investigators as the first...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Colchicine may provide potent cardiac protection

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 20:30

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Evidence from three observational studies suggests colchicine has a strong protective effect against cardiovascular events in gout patients. These data add to mounting evidence...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Polyarteritis nodosa gene discovery raises new possibilities for field

Posted on: 05/03/2014 - 19:00

Autosomal recessive mutations in the gene CECR1 cause an inflammatory vasculopathy with a highly varied clinical presentation that often meets the criteria for polyarteritis nodosa and can occur with...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Physicians are major source for frequent opioid misusers

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 21:15

Most people who misuse opioid pain relievers cite friends and relatives as their sources for the drugs, but more of the people who misuse these agents most often – those who take them from 200 to 365...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Foods can still trigger eosinophilic esophagitis after allergy outgrown

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:45

SAN DIEGO – Seventeen of 425 children who had eosinophilic esophagitis caused by a specific food developed the condition after outgrowing the allergy to that food, a retrospective study...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Phytoestrogens may prevent, treat asthma and allergy

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:40

SAN DIEGO – Could increased consumption of phytoestrogens help prevent or treat asthma and allergy? Dr. Jessica Savage, an allergist and immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and her...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Arthroplasty for rheumatoid arthritis doesn’t boost cardiovascular risk

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 17:40

SNOWMASS, COLO. – During a recent 15-year period in which the annual arthroplasty rate for osteoarthritis and other noninflammatory arthritides doubled, the arthroplasty rate for rheumatoid arthritis...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

TNF inhibitors reduce coronary artery disease risk in rheumatoid arthritis

Posted on: 27/02/2014 - 20:55

Use of tumor necrosis factor–alpha inhibitors was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of coronary artery disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, particularly with longer term...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

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