Services

All patient care services are provided by academic staff and consultants who are specialized in their own fields and are worldwide known.

Each year, our department sees almost 6,000-7000 outpatients (6660 patients in 2016) and treats almost 200-300 children as inpatients (250 patients in 2016).

In our department we have one ultrasonography (for joint evaluation), one capilleroscopy and one intraarticular injection room.

Our physiotherapy team help and support our patients with a new biopsychosocial model called BETY (Cognitive Exercise Therapy Approach) -first described by our team- at our clinic everyday between 13:30-15:00, and at Rheumatological Rehabilitation Unit (Health Science Faculty, Physiotheraphy and Rehabilitation Department, located at the same campus with our clinic) during other time.

The genetic diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) are carried out, which is common in our society and causes chronic kidney failure as a result of amyloid deposition when it is not treated. Our center is as a worldwide known and accepted as a reference center for this disease.

Other disease those are treated in our clinic:

  • juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA):
  • systemic JIA
  • polyarticular JIA
  • polyarticular onset: rheumatoid factor (RF) positive JIA
  • oligoarticular arthritis
  • enthesitis-related arthritis
  • psoriatic arthritis
  • arthritis associated with other chronic diseases
  • scleroderma (systemic sclerosis and localized scleroderma)
  • juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM)
  • vasculitides – IgA vasculitis/Henoch Schonlein Purpura (IgAV/HSP), Kawasaki disease, polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Behcet disease, Takayasu arteritis and other vasculitides
  • systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
  • mixed connective tissue disease
  • chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
  • Sarcoidosis
  • IgG4 related disease
  • periodic fever syndromes -familial mediterranean fever (FMF), PFAPA Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndrome (CAPS), hyperimmunoglobulin D syndrome (HIDS), TRAPS and other genetic periodic fever syndromes
  • chronic pain syndrome
  • joint hypermobility syndrome