Rheumatology in Minnesota

Services

The division offers the following medical services:

• Outpatient consultations
• Outpatient specialty care for patients with chronic rheumatic diseases
• Hospital consultations
• Injection Clinic, providing diagnostic and therapeutic intrarticular and soft tissue injections and aspirations
• Out-patient diagnostic arthroscopy
• Outreach services to Albert Lea, Decorah and Owatonna (communities in Minnesota)
• Education on rheumatologic diseases and treatments
• Clinical trials

Diseases Treated

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Lupus (Systemic lupus erythematosus)
• Ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthropathies
• Polymyositis/dermatomyositis
• Scleroderma
• Wegener's granulomatosus
• Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
• Vasculitis
• Gout and pseudogout
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• Juvenile dermatomyositis

Rare Diseases Treated

• Behcet's disease
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis

Subspecialty Areas

• Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinic
• Connective Tissue Disease Clinic
• Seronegative Arthritis Clinic
• Osteoarthritis Clinic
• Pediatric Rheumatology
• Vasculitis Clinic