Best Rheumatology Hospital in Baner, Pune

Centre of Excellence: Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

Rheumatology is a branch of medicine that deals with musculoskeletal diseases and systemic autoimmune conditions. Rheumatic diseases commonly affect the bones, joints, ligaments and muscles often causing deformity, pain, swelling, and stiffness.

Clinical immunology is a branch of medicine that deals with the diseases and disorders of the immune system. 

Services offered: 

Specialists at the Manipal Hospital, Baner, New Pune are pioneers in the field of rheumatology and clinical immunology. They are committed to providing comprehensive care for patients with rheumatic diseases and autoimmune disorders. Services provided by the department of rheumatology and clinical Immunology include and not limited to:

1. Rheumatoid arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that affects your joints causing painful swelling. Over a while, it can lead to bone erosion and joint deformities. Due to inflammation, blood vessels, eyes, heart, skin, and lungs can also be affected.

Your doctor will check for pain, redness, swelling, and warmth in your joints. Depending on the duration and severity of your symptoms you may be recommended medications and imaging tests including: 

• X-rays: To track the progression of the disease in your joints

• MRI and Ultrasound Tests: To track the severity of the disease in your body.

Therapy: Our highly specialised team of physical/occupational therapists may recommend exercises and tools to help keep your joints flexible.

Surgery: Surgery is recommended when medications fail to prevent or slow joint damage.

• Synovectomy: A thin tube fitted with a camera and light (arthroscopy) is used to get a close-up video image of the joint. The synovium (inflamed joint tissue) is surgically removed. 

• Tendon repair: Loose or ruptured tendons around your joint are surgically repaired. 

• Finger Joint fusion: The joint is realigned by inserting a plastic or metal rod to fuse the finger bones.

• Total joint replacement: In place of the damaged joint, prosthesis made of plastic ceramic or metal is inserted which mimics the movement of a normal, healthy joint.

2. Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis occurs when the protective cushion (cartilage) at the end of your bones wears down. Osteoarthritis can affect joints in your knees, spine, hands, and hips. The management of osteoarthritis include:

• Physical examination: Affected joints are checked for swelling tenderness, redness and flexibility.

• Imaging tests: X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), etc.

• Medications

• Exercises

• Cortisone injections

• Lubrication injections

• Realigning bones

• Joint replacement

Manipal Hospital is the best arthritis treatment hospital in Baner, Pune having recognized nationally for their surgical techniques and innovative abilities to treat simple to complex problems.

3. Childhood arthritis: Childhood arthritis or juvenile arthritis in children can lead to permanent joint disability and make daily activities such as walking, playing and dressing difficult for the child. It can be improved through regular exercise and recommended drug therapy by a rheumatologist if the child reports at the earliest.

4. Still's Disease: A rare condition characterised by high fever and joint pain. It can also lead to chronic arthritis. The goal of treatment is to control symptoms of pain and inflammation and suppress immune reactions.

5. Polymyalgia rheumatica: It is an inflammatory disorder called giant cell arteries. Most commonly affects women and those aged 50 years and above with severe early morning stiffness of functional muscles. Common symptoms include persistent headaches, pain or tenderness in the jaw, blurred vision or visual loss, scalp tenderness, etc. A biopsy of the artery is performed under local anaesthesia, which is further examined for inflammation.

6. Fibromyalgia: Fibromyalgia causes widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, as well as memory and mood issues. Treatments for fibromyalgia include self-care and medications that reduce pain and improve sleep. 

7. Spondyloarthropathies: Spondyloarthropathies is an inflammatory rheumatic disease that affects the spine and sometimes the joints of the arms and legs. The most common symptom includes low-back pain and swelling of the arms and legs.

Types of spondyloarthropathies include:

• Axial spondyloarthritis: Affects the spine and the sacroiliac joints (the joint that connects the lower spine and pelvis). The most common symptom is a pain in the buttocks, hips and lowers back.

• Peripheral spondyloarthritis: Affects the arms and legs

• Reactive arthritis: Also known as Reiter's syndrome, reactive arthritis is inflammatory arthritis that commonly affects the joints of the knees or ankles along with the heels, toes, fingers, low back, etc. 

• Enteropathic arthritis: Enteropathic arthritis is a chronic inflammatory arthritis that is linked with inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

• Gout: Gout is a very common form of arthritis that affects the joints at the base of the big toe. The most common symptom is sudden, severe attacks of pain, redness, tenderness and swelling of the joints.

• Sarcoidosis: Sarcoidosis is the growth of granulomas (collections of inflammatory cells) in the lungs and lymph nodes. Sometimes it can also affect the skin, eyes, heart and other organs.

• Systemic sclerosis: Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune inflammatory disease. It affects the heart, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, lungs, and skin due to widespread fibrosis and vascular abnormalities. Based on its distribution on the skin, systemic sclerosis is divided into:
  
  - Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis
  - Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis

• Systemic lupus erythematosus: Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that involves the brain, skin, joints, kidneys, and other organs. Some common symptoms include chest pain, fever, fatigue, uneasiness, hair loss, weight loss, etc. 

• Vasculitis: Inflammation of the blood vessels can present as fever, skin rashes, absent pulses, and compromised blood circulation to the kidneys and lungs.