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Kelsey-Seybold Rheumatology – Fayyaz Ahmed, MD Kelsey-Seybold Rheumatology – Fayyaz Ahmed, MD

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Help for joint pain, inflammation, and autoimmune conditions.

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Care for autoimmune, inflammatory, and joint conditions

Rheumatologic conditions - rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, gout, psoriatic arthritis, osteoporosis, and many others - are notoriously difficult to diagnose and harder to live with. People often go years without a clear answer. Our rheumatologists work to get the diagnosis right quickly, then build a plan to calm inflammation and protect your joints and organs. Treatment may include biologics or targeted synthetic DMARDs, on-site infusion therapy, joint injections, and DEXA scanning for bone health. When your condition touches other systems - skin, kidneys, lungs, bones - we coordinate directly with those specialists, so you're not the one stitching the plan together.

Rheumatology Services

Diagnostic Evaluation

  • Comprehensive rheumatologic history and physical exam
  • Autoimmune and inflammatory lab panels (ANA, RF, anti-CCP, complement, ESR, CRP, specific antibody testing) drawn through our on-site outpatient lab
  • Musculoskeletal ultrasound
  • DEXA bone density scanning
  • Joint fluid analysis
  • Coordination of MRI and X-ray imaging

In-Office Procedures

  • Joint aspiration (arthrocentesis)
  • Intra-articular corticosteroid injections (knee, shoulder, hip, wrist, ankle, small joints)
  • Viscosupplementation for osteoarthritis (hyaluronic acid)
  • Bursa injections
  • Tendon sheath injections
  • Soft-tissue injections
  • Ultrasound-guided injections when appropriate

Infusion Therapy

  • On-site or coordinated infusion suite services for biologics and immunomodulatory therapies (e.g., infliximab, rituximab, tocilizumab, abatacept, IV bisphosphonates)
  • Monitoring and patient education

Disease Management Programs

  • Treat-to-target management for rheumatoid arthritis
  • Lupus monitoring
  • Gout flare and prevention management
  • Osteoporosis assessment and treatment (including sequential therapy)
  • Psoriatic arthritis and spondyloarthritis care
  • Vasculitis monitoring
  • Systemic sclerosis and Sjögren's long-term care

Coordinated & Preventive Care

  • Cardiovascular risk assessment for inflammatory conditions
  • Vaccination planning for immunocompromised patients
  • Medication safety monitoring
  • Pregnancy planning for women with autoimmune disease
  • Coordination with orthopedics, neurology, dermatology, nephrology, pulmonary, and primary care

Conditions Treated

  • Adult-onset Still's disease
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome
  • Behçet's disease
  • Bursitis
  • Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (pseudogout)
  • Crystal-induced arthritis
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Enteropathic arthritis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Giant cell arteritis
  • Gout
  • Hypermobility spectrum disorders
  • Inflammatory myopathies (polymyositis, dermatomyositis)
  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (transitional/adult)
  • Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE)
  • Mixed connective tissue disease
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Osteoporosis and osteopenia
  • Paget's disease of bone
  • Palindromic rheumatism
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Polymyositis
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Raynaud's phenomenon
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy / CRPS (select cases)
  • Relapsing polychondritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Sarcoidosis (rheumatologic manifestations)
  • Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)
  • Sjögren's syndrome
  • Spondyloarthritis (axial and peripheral)
  • Tendonitis
  • Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
  • Vasculitis (ANCA-associated, IgA, others)

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