Medical Specialist: Pediatric Rheumatology
Pediatric rheumatologists specialize in the care of children and families with rheumatic diseases. They are pediatricians who have 2-3 additional years of training in pediatric rheumatology, and are Board Certified in Pediatric Rheumatology. They are usually found at a university medical center where they are part of a multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive services to children with rheumatic diseases. Pediatric rheumatologists are skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with:
Associated Diseases
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Mixed connective tissue disease
- Scleroderma
- Chronic vasculitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Juvenile Dermatomyositis
- Lyme disease with arthritis
- Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
- Neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease
- Post-infectious arthritis
- Post-infectious vasculitis
- Relapsing polychondritis
- Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Apophysitis
- Osteochondroses
- Serum sickness
- Growing pains
- Kawasaki disease
- Reiter’s syndrome
- Iritis
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Behcet’s syndrome
- Erythromelalgia
- Fibromyalgia
- Raynaud’s disease
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Cold induced injury
- Pain syndromes
- Osteoporosis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Over use syndromes
- Hypermobility
- Osteoarthritis
- Complex autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- Periodic fever syndromes
- Wegner’s granulomatosis
- Complex autoimmune thrombocytopenia
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Vasculitis
