To learn the main rheumatic diseases (autoimmune and autoinflammatory disorders), their clinical pictures, diagnostic work-up, and therapeutic notes.
Classroom lessons, using PowerPoint.
The pain in rheumatology: articular inflammatory or degenerative pain, muscle and fibromyalgic pain, neuropathic pain.
The main chronic inflammatory arthropathies: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankilosing spondylitis, and other spondyloarthritis. Main features, diagnostic work-up, and brief therapeutic notes.
Crystal arthritis: gout and chondrocalcinosis.
Osteoarthritis.
Fibromyalgia.
Polymialgia rheumatica.
Connective tissue diseases: systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease. Main features, diagnostic work-up, and brief therapeutic notes.
Vasculitides: giant cell arteritis and Takayasu's arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa and Kawasaki's disease, mixed cryoglobulinemia, Schoenlein-Henoch purpura, ANCA-associated vasculitis (granulomatosis with polyangiitis, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, microscopic polyangiitis). Main features, diagnostic work-up, and brief therapeutic notes.
Autoinflammatory diseases: physiopathological concepts and brief description of the main syndromes.
Osteoporosis.
Other painful syndromes due to nerve commpression.
Books for medical students or general practioners on rheumatology or clinical immunology are suggested.