Neurorheumatology

The central and peripheral nervous system.- Inflammation in the nervous system.- Signs and symptoms of relevant rheumatological disorders.- Imaging.- Laboratory testing.- Electrophysiological studies.- Biopsy.- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Antiphospholipid and thrombotic microangiopathies.- Sjögren Syndrome.- Rheumatoid 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.- Clinical syndrome tables.- Differential diagnoses.- 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