Dear Visitors,
Welcome to the page of the Rheumatology Clinic.
Let us to introduce you the operation of our clinic, its various activities and our staff. The primary function of the clinic is patient care and our main profiles are inflammatory and autoimmune rheumatological diseases, such as arthritis, spondyloarthritis, autoinflammatory diseases, autoimmune rheumatological diseases (systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, Sjörgen syndrome, inflammatory muscle diseases, vasculitis, undifferentiated autoimmune disease, etc.). Within the framework of outpatient care, patient care is provided in 3 parallel clinics 6 hours a day and the inpatient ward operates with 20 beds. Our department is a major regional arthritis and biological/targeted therapy centre where the most modern diagnostic and therapeutic options are also available. Our physiotherapy unit (physiotherapy, massage, electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, ultrasound, Bioptron lamp, soft laser) is also available 6 hours a day.
We are constantly involved in various controlled drug trials, too.
We coordinate the education with Dr. Zoltán Szekanecz who is the head of the Department.of Rheumatology and we work with the Department of Immunology of the Department of Internal Medicine, too. During the graduate training, our tasks are propaedeutics of internal medicine, education of clinical immunology and rheumatology and we also educate at the Physiotherapy Course of the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Tourism and Hospitality of the Faculty of Public Health and at the Faculty of Pharmacy. In the postgraduate training, our main tasks are the training of rheumatologists, but we also take part in the training of specialists of the border areas (orthopedics, traumatology, neurosurgery, radiology, clinical immunology and allergology) and we regularly organize further trainings for family doctors.
Our organizational unit also provides clinical researches which is primarily targeting the pathogenesis and comorbidities of arthritis, systemic autoimmune diseases.
Prof. Dr. Gabriella Szűcs, clinic director
Prof. Dr. Zoltán Szekanecz, head of department