Rheumatology

The Rheumatology Clinic at MPH focuses on providing quality care and ongoing treatment services to patients with rheumatologic disorders. It specializes in diagnosing and treating patients with different musculoskeletal complaints. This includes thorough clinical evaluation and laboratory work; instituting the appropriate treatment as early as possible; monitoring the progression of different rheumatological diseases using appropriate international standards of assessing disease outcomes for different rheumatological disorders, such as DAS 28, SLEDAI, SLICC, etc; admitting patients for in-hospital cytotoxic therapy (cyclophosphamide), prostaglandin E2 and anti-TNF therapy (infliximab); and an infusion center.

The department’s services include clinics for arthritis, osteoporosis, combined rheumatology and obstetrics, combined rheumatology and nephrology. The hospital also performs several procedures such as: joint aspiration; therapeutic and diagnostic; intra-articular joint aspiration and injection; ascetic fluid aspiration for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes; pleural fluid aspiration; therapeutic and diagnostic; lumbar puncture; and musculoskeletal ultrasound