Organization - Rheumatology Service

The Rheumatology Service is organized into three areas of activity that broadly cover the main rheumatic diseases, with special emphasis on complex diseases.

• Arthritis. It treats patients with onset arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathies or other inflammatory joint diseases.
• Bone metabolic pathology. It assists patients with osteoporosis, Paget’s bone disease, and other bone diseases such as osteomalacia or imperfect osteogenesis. Next to the Radiodiagnosis Service, we treat patients with pain associated with vertebral fracture due to osteoporosis.
• Chronic non-oncological pain. There is a multidisciplinary program for the evaluation and treatment of fibromyalgia. At the same time, as the benchmark hospital in the Esquerra de l'Eixample, from the various primary healthcare centers the Service treats patients with rheumatic disease. It also has a hospitalization service, for those patients who require admission, and a day hospital, where various intravenous treatments related to the specialty are performed.

The Rheumatology Service performs minimally invasive outpatient surgery procedures where synovial biopsies guided by ultrasound / arthroscopy and arthroscopy joint washes are performed.

The Service is a benchmark in clinical evaluation and in the application of diagnostic techniques, both laboratory (antibodies, bone markers) and imaging, with the development of pioneering techniques such as rheumatological arthroscopy (fine needle).