Rheumatology

Our speciality for Rheumatology at St. Elizabeth Hospital deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, autoimmune diseases, vasculitides, and heritable connective tissue disorders. With a special focus in new Biologic therapies for the treatment of:

• Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Arthritis associated with Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, Wegener’s Granulomatosis.
• Inflammatory arthritis including:
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Spondyloarthritis e.g. ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis, enteropathic arthritis
• Gout
• Juvenile ideopathic arthritis
• Connective Tissue Diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, sjogren’s syndrome, polymyalgia rheumatic
• Overlap Syndromes
• Vasculitis including:
• ANCA associated vasculitis including Wegener’s Granulomatosis,
• Large vessels vasculitis including Takayasu’s arteritis, Giant cell arteritis,
• Polyarteritis Nodosa
• Small vessels vasculitis
• Behcet’s Disease
• Osteoporosis, Vitamin D deficiency
• Knee and other joints pain disorders
• Back and neck pain disorders
• Generalized pain syndromes including Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue syndrome.