MEDICAL ACTIVITY:
The Rheumatology is devoted to the diagnose, follow-up and treatment of the main inflammatory and auto-immune and systemic diseases.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Spondylartropathy: psoriatic arthritis, Ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease associated arthritis, uveitis)
- Vasculitis, Giant cell arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, Behcet
- Metabolic Arthropathies : gout, chondrocalcinosis
- Systemic diseases: lupus erythematosus, Sjögren's disease...
- Osteoporosis
Technical acts performed in my daily practice
- Diagnostic ultrasound in inflammatory diseases, power doppler (scoring synovitis), but also a large amount of indications are routinely diagnosed (tendinopathies, tendon and muscular ruptures...)
- Infiltrations and intrarticulaire ultrasound guided injections.
* Intravenous biological treatments or intravenous biphosphonates are provided in collaboration with OLV hospital, Aalst