Neurorheumatology

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 Rheumatology Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD, MS Chief, Division of Spinal Cord Disorders Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Associate Neurologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA

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.