Neurorheumatology

I. Physiology and Testing

 

The central and peripheral nervous system

Inflammation in the nervous system

Signs and symptoms of relevant rheumatological disorders

Imaging

Laboratory testing

Electrophysiological studies

Biopsy

 

II. Diseases and their Nervous System Effects

 

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Antiphospholipid and thrombotic microangiopathies

Sjögren SyndromeRheumatoid Arthritis



Sarcoidosis

Seronegative spondyloarthropathy

IgG4-Related Disease

Scleroderma

Giant Cell Arteritis

CNS vasculitis

Neuro-Beh et Disease

Autoinflammatory Diseases

Ocular + Auditory Inflammatory Syndromes

Paraneoplastic Syndromes

Neuronal Surface Antibody-Mediated Autoimmune Encephalitis

Hashimoto's encephalopathy/SREAT

Celiac Disease

Neuromyelitis Optica Multiple sclerosis and relation to systemic autoimmune disorders



Stiff-person Syndrome

Inflammatory myopathies

Neuromuscular Junction Disorders

Peripheral neuropathy in rheumatologic disorders, plexopathy

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease

Lyme Disease

Complications related to pharmacotherapy

Amyloidosis

 

III. Guide to Rheumatological Diagnosis and Tests by Syndrome -

 

Clinical syndrome tables

Differential diagnoses 



IV. Overview of immunomodulatory treatment paradigms

 

Corticosteroids

Oral steroid-sparing agents

Cyclophosphamide

Biologics

IVIG

Plasmapheresis

Tracey A. Cho, MD

Director, Division of Neuroimmunology

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA


Simon Helfgott, MD

Director of Education & Fellowship Training

Division of RheumatologyBrigham and Women's Hospital