Rheumatology

• Evaluating a patient with arthritis and rheumatic disease
• Rheumatologic investigations
• Autoantibodies
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Septic arthritis
• Crystal-induced arthropathies
  • Gout
  • Pseudogout
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
• Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
• Inflammatory myopathies
  • Polymyositis
  • Dermatomyositis
• Sjogren’s syndrome
• How to evaluate a patient with ‘Back pain’
  • Seronegative spondyloarthropathies
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Reactive arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome)
  • Enteropathic spondyloarthritis