Dr. Robert F Spiera MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
1088 Park Avenue New York NY, 10128Rating
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About
Dr. Robert Spiera is a rheumatologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Spiera specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Spiera treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Yale School of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Rheumatology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Methotrexate in giant-cell arteritis.
- Long-term outcome in lupus nephritis.
- Ticlopidine-induced lupus: a report of 4 cases.
- Vision loss in giant cell arteritis patients treated with alternate-day corticosteroids: comment on the article by Hoffman et al.
- Therapy for giant cell arteritis: can we do better?
- Targeting tyrosine kinases: a novel therapeutic strategy for systemic sclerosis.
- Low prevalence of coeliac disease in patients with systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study of a registry cohort.
- Biomarkers in ANCA-associated vasculitis.
- Churg-strauss syndrome with eosinophilic myocarditis: a clinical pathology conference held by the division of rheumatology at hospital for special surgery.
- Practice patterns of ANCA-associated vasculitis: exploring differences among subspecialties at a single academic medical centre.
- Imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) in the treatment of diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: results of a 24-month open label, extension phase, single-centre trial.
- Effectiveness of rituximab for the otolaryngologic manifestations of
- Pulmonary vasculitis.
- Nilotinib (Tasigna™) in the treatment of early diffuse systemic sclerosis: an open-label, pilot clinical trial.
- Stress granules and RNA processing bodies are novel autoantibody targets in systemic sclerosis.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Psoriasis
- Osteoporosis
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Gout
- Osteoarthritis
- Lupus
- Scleroderma
- Tendonitis
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