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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

Reference:

American College of Rheumatology 2008.