Manhattan Pain Medicine’s Rheumatologist, Nino Mikaberidze, MD, works with patients to diagnose a variety of immune disorders, including:
Conditions:
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis and other seronegative spondyloarthropathies
- Osteoporosis
- Osteoarthritis
- SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus)
- Scleroderma/Systemic Sclerosis
- Sjogrens Disease
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease/Overlap Syndrome
- IgG4 Disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Inflammatory Myositis/Dermatomyositis
- Gout/Pseudogout and other Crystal Associated Arthritis
- Reactive Arthritis
- Enteropathic Arthritis associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease( Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis)
Vasculitis:
- Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
- Takayasu’s Arteritis (TAK)
- Kawasaki Disease (KD)
- Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
- Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA)
- Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA)
- Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA), formally known as Churg-Strauss Syndrome
- Primary Angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS)
- IgA Vasculitis (Henoch-Schonlein Purpura - HSP)
- Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
- Behcet’s Disease/ Behcet’s syndrome
- Relapsing Polychondritis (RP)
Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases:
- Periodic Fever Syndromes
- Yao Syndrome, formerly named NOD2-associated autoinflammatory disease
- Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
- Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) or NLRP3-associated autoinflammatory disease
- NLRP12 Autoinflammatory Disease or Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome type 2(FCAS2)
- Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS)
- Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome (HIDS) or Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency
- Blau syndrome
- Still’s disease
- Behcet disease.
- Hypermobility syndromes / Ehlers-Danlos
Treatment Modalities Include:
- Biological and immune modulating medication management
- Infusions
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound examination
- Ultrasound-guided joint, tendon and bursa injections
- IVIg