Rheumatology

long questions 

1. Discuss an approach to a case of osteoporosis outline its treatment 

2. Aetiology, clinical features and management of dermatomyositis

3. Aetiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, extra-articular manifestations, diagnosis, management of rheumatoid arthritis (repeated )

4. Enumerate the various vasculitis syndromes and discuss the clinical features and management of polyarteritis nodosa

5. Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment of mixed connective tissue disease

6. Pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, pathology, management of SLE (repeated )

7. Pathogenic mechanisms of vessel damage in vasculitic syndromes. Outline the diagnosis and

8. clinical features of small vessel vasculitis

9. Discuss pathogenesis of inflammatory polyarthritis discuss treatment of ankylosing spondylosis

short questions 

1. Felty’s syndrome (repeated )

2. Hand in RA

3. extrarticular manifestation of RA  (repeated )

4. respiratory manifestation of RA 

5. DMARDs

6. Biological DMARDs (repeated )

7. Raynaud’s phenomenon (repeated )

8. Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (repeated )

9. Young onset OA

10. Serum antibodies assay in different rheumatological disorders and its relevance in reactive arthritis

11. Caplan syndrome

12. Kawasaki disease

13. Crystal associated arthritis

14. Seronegative arthropathy

15. Criteria for RA diagnosis

16. Churg Strauss syndrome (repeated )

17. Wegener’s granulomatosis

18. HSP (repeated )

19. Diagnosis and treatment of Sjogrens syndrome

20. Enteropathic arthritis

21. Secondary vasculitis syndrome

22. Vasculitis

23. Ankylosing spondylitis (repeated )

24. Infliximab

25. Sarcoidosis extrapulmonary manifestations

26. Sarcoidosis

27. Pathological changes of OA. Note on young-onset OA

28. Purpura

29. Reactive arthropathy/Reiters disease (repeated )

30. Marfans syndrome

31. Polymyositis

32. ANCA

33. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

34. Clinical features of syndromes associated with hypoxanthine-guanine-phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) deficiency

35. Takayasu disease

36. Serological tests for SLE

37. Biologicals used in rheumatoid arthritis (repeated )

38. DMARDs in RA

39. Lupus nephritis

40. Method of immediate and long term immunosuppression

41. Paget’s disease.

42. Polyarteritis nodosa

43. Psoriatic arthropathy

44. Raynaud's phenomenon

45. Role of dexa scan.

46. Role of newer steroids.

47. Scleroderma.

48. Systemic sclerosis

49. Immunological diseases of respiratory system

50. Disease modifying drugs in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (Repeated )

51. Biological agents in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (Repeated )

52. Respiratory manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis

53. Extra articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (Repeated Multiple Ti

54. Complement system (Repeated)

55. Acute gouty arthritis (Repeated)

56. Describe uric acid metabolism and discuss complications of hyperuricemia

57. Uric acid metabolism in health and disease

58. Treatment of osteoporosis (Repeated)

59. Ankylosing spondylosis

60. Antiphospholipid syndrome

61. Clinical presentation and diagnosis of mixed connective tissue disorder

62. Diagnosis of APLA syndrome

63. Diagnostic blood tests in connective tissue disorders.

64. Effector cells of immune system and their functions in innate immunity

65. familial mediterranean fever