Blossoming the Mind
Prachi Patil MD Medicine Consultant rheumatologist, Ojas arthritis and rheumatology center, Nashik, India अपनी मानस चित्तधारा ही जीवन हैं , बाकी सब उपरी खेल .. उसे परि शुद्ध रूप मैं जतन करना ही अपना प्रथम कर्तव्य हैं बाकी सब उपरी मैल.. चित्त शुद्ध हो तो बिना बूँद दिख जाये समुंदर.. दूषित चित्त से दिख पाये […]
Photographic phenotype of a rheumatologist
Ashish Sharma MBBS, MD, Fellowship in Rheumatology Consultant, Department of Rheumatology, Rheumatology Clinic, New Delhi, India I am a rheumatologist with a special interest in imaging. I feel this has emerged because of my intrinsic inclination towards pictures and photography. I am a nature admirer and love travelling. It frequently happens to me that some […]
Lumped together
Parshant Aggarwal MD, DM (Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology) Consultant Rheumatologist & Immunologist, Punjab Rheumatology & Immunology Centre, Ludhiana, India 24-year-old male, presented with a history of back pain for 3 years. Pain was worse at night and associated with early morning stiffness of 1 hour. He was detected to be HLA B27 positive. His CRP […]
Spot the Diagnosis
Sakshi Mittal MD (Internal Medicine), DM (Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) Senior Consultant Rheumatologist, Venkateshwara Hospital, Delhi, India A 48-year-old male presented with arthritis involving predominantly small joints of hands and feet. It began as episodic oligo-arthritis, but eventually progressed to chronic polyarthritis. X-ray of hand shows radiological features typical of this disease. What is the […]
Autoimmune Memeology
The Anonymous Rheumatologist Did you know that coining of the word ‘meme’ was intended to be a cultural equivalent to the word ‘gene’. Just like genes carry important information from one generation to another, a meme is meant to carry important information from one individual to another. It is intriguing that the information that is […]
The Art of Documentation in Clinic
Dr. Nilesh Nolkha, MD, DM Senior Consultant and DNB guide, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, BYL Nair Charitable Hospital and Topiwala Nair Medical College Nirjara Multispecialty Clinics, Mumbai We all must have wondered at some point in time to document our patient’s health records in our clinics. However, due to various reasons (logistics, manpower […]
Plague and origin of FMF mutations
Naval Mendiratta MBBS, MD (Medicine), Fellowship in rheumatology (Singapore) Senior Consultant, Department of Rheumatology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram, India Family Mediterranean fever is an autoinflammatory syndrome, transmitted in an autosomal recessive pattern affecting mostly the mediterranean belt. The prevalence has been discovered mostly in the Jews, Arabs, Turkish and Armenian Population. It is characterized […]
Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real life physician
(Capt.) Gargi Sasmal MBBS, MD, DrNB Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology (Army Hospital R&R) Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar As rheumatologists, we are well aware of the importance of reaching the correct diagnosis, timely! The plenitude of diseases, with their never-ending symptomatology and myriad of clinical presentations, makes the subject nothing […]
Quarter in review: Paediatric Rheumatology
Ankur Kumar Jindal MD (Pediatrics), DM (Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) Assistant professor, Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Study in focus 1: Myositis-Associated Autoantibodies (MAAs) in Juvenile myositis are associated with refractory Disease and mortality Myositis specific autoantibodies (MSAs) are specific for the […]
Quarter in review: Clinical Science
Shounak Ghosh MD (Medicine), MRCP (UK), DrNB (Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology) Consultant Rheumatologist, Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata, India Study in focus 1: Comparison of tapering csDMARDs v/s drug-free remission v/s stable treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (ARCTIC REWIND) The world of Rheumatology has been on an active lookout for drug withdrawal opportunities in rheumatic diseases. […]
