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
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound — diagnostic and interventional
• Outreach services
• Clinical trials

Diseases treated

Among the diseases treated in Rheumatology are:

• Ankylosing spondylitis and other spondyloarthropathies
• Behcet's disease
• Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
• Gout and pseudogout
• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's)
• Juvenile dermatomyositis
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
• Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus)
• Osteoarthritis
• Polymyositis or dermatomyositis
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Retroperitoneal fibrosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Vasculitis
• Wegener's granulomatosus

See information about specialty clinics in Rheumatology.