Arthropathies Associated with Systemic Diseases Leann Maska Amy C. Cannella A 60-year-old Caucasian gentleman with long-standing poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus presents to your office with symptoms of swelling…
Osteopenic Bone Diseases and Osteonecrosis Kenneth G. Saag Gregory A. Clines Sarah L. Morgan A 75-year-old male seen for compression fractures. He relates a strong family history of metabolic bone…
Gout and Crystal-Induced Arthropathies Angelo Gaffo A 65-year-old patient with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, and a prior diagnosis of gout is hospitalized because of an exacerbation of heart…
Osteoarthritis Mary S. Walton Carlos J. Lozada Seth M. Berney A 60-year-old male former professional football player with a history of multiple knee injuries complains of bilateral knee pain for…
Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases Michael Lockshin A 39-year-old woman with long-standing rheumatoid arthritis, which she believes is now quiescent, consults you because she is planning a pregnancy. She has not…
Fibromyalgia Graciela S. Alarcón A 40-year-old obese, sedentary, Caucasian woman presents to a rheumatologist with a 6-month history of generalized myalgias, arthralgias, swelling of small hand joints, and morning stiffness…
Overlap Syndromes and Unclassified or Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease Iris Navarro-Millán Graciela S. Alarcón A 48-year-old Hispanic woman with symmetric polyarthritis, anemia, myalgias, and proximal muscle weakness. Over time she…
Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica Angelo Gaffo A 76-year-old white woman presents to her primary care physician with a 3-month history of progressive fatigue, malaise, poor appetite, and a…
Vasculitis Bao Quynh N. Huynh S. Louis Bridges Jr A 39-year-old female with an antinuclear antibody titer of 1:320, speckled pattern is referred to a rheumatologist for painful erythematous lesions…
Inflammatory Myopathies: Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, and Related Conditions Irene Z. Whitt Frederick W. Miller A previously healthy 54-year-old librarian comes to the clinic complaining of “tired and sore arms and legs”…
