WIESBADEN, Germany — To differentiate temporary or even long-lasting symptoms, such as in the back, from one of the 100 or so "actual" rheumatologic conditions is not easy, even for specialists.
"Inflammatory conditions of the connective tissue, which pervades the body, can be found throughout, in joints, muscles, vessels, organs," explained Ulf Müller-Ladner, MD, chair of internal medicine with a focus on rheumatology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Kerckhoff campus, Bad Nauheim, Germany, at the annual conference of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM).
