Rheumatology & Immunology in Guntur
Inflammatory and autoimmune disease of joints, muscle and connective tissue — identified early, treated to a target, and reviewed for as long as it takes to keep it quiet.
About this speciality
Joint pain is common; inflammatory joint disease is not. Telling them apart early matters, because inflammatory arthritis damages cartilage and bone within the first couple of years, and that damage does not reverse.
The rheumatology service assesses joint, muscle and connective tissue symptoms in adults, using clinical examination alongside targeted immunological and imaging tests. Where an autoimmune condition is confirmed, treatment aims at low disease activity or remission and is adjusted at review rather than left to run unchanged.
How we approach it
Diagnose the disease, not the symptom
Antibody panels, inflammatory markers and imaging are used selectively to separate inflammatory arthritis from mechanical pain — because the two need completely different treatment.
Treat to target
Therapy is titrated against a defined disease-activity goal and reassessed at intervals, rather than continued indefinitely at a fixed dose.
Watch the whole patient
Autoimmune disease affects skin, eyes, lungs, kidneys and blood vessels as well as joints, so monitoring covers organ involvement and medication safety, not the joint count alone.
Conditions
What we treat
Arthritis
Not all joint pain is the same disease.
Read more RheumatologyAnkylosing Spondylitis
Back pain in a young adult that is worse after rest, wakes them in the second half of the night and eases with movement is inflammatory until proven otherwise.
Read more RheumatologyScleroderma
Skin tightening on the fingers, colour changes in the cold and reflux are the combination that should prompt testing for systemic sclerosis — early, while organ involvement can still be screened for.
Read more RheumatologyRaynaud’s Phenomenon
Fingers that turn white in the cold, then blue, then red and painful as they warm are having a Raynaud's attack.
Read more RheumatologyChikungunya Arthritis
The fever passes in a week.
Read more RheumatologyAutoimmune & Connective Tissue Disease
Unexplained fatigue with rashes, mouth ulcers, dry eyes, fevers or multi-system symptoms often has one underlying immunological cause — and identifying it is what makes treatment possible.
Read moreGet an assessment in Guntur
Book a consultation with Dr. Deepika Ponnuru at the Kothapeta clinic.