
Description
Rheumatology is a part of medicine and pediatrics that diagnoses, treats and manages diseases of bone joints and related connective tissue. Many of the rheumatic diseases are of autoimmune origin and rheumatology is constantly getting more related to immunology. As such, many diseases are identified by the presence and the amount of specific antibodies in the blood, but physical testing and chemical investigation of the fluid in the affected joint is routinely performed as well.