Overview
This subspecialty of internal medicine at ZHUMC deals with diseases of multiple systems of the body, which result from chronic inflammation or aberrations in the immune system. The management of these diseases requires a long lasting journey of cooperation between patient and physician.
We also offer optimal management strategies of rheumatologic diseases. We coordinate the patients’ care plans with other specialties, offer hospitalization when needed for intensive treatment and intravenous treatment infusions, and plan scheduled visits for follow-up.
Services
Conditions we treat:
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Spondyloarthritis
- Gout
- Vasculitis
- Lupus
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren's disease
- Behçet's disease
- Familial Mediterranean fever
- Other periodic fevers
