Dr. Joan T Merrill MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
825 Ne 13th St Omrf E110 Oklahoma City OK, 73104About
Dr. Joan Merrill is a rheumatologist practicing in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Merrill 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. Merrill 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
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1985
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regulation of the vasculature: clues from lupus.
- Recurrent pregnancy loss with the antiphospholipid antibody: a systematic review of therapeutic trials.
- Measuring disease activity in systemic lupus: progress and problems.
- Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus by inhibition of T cell costimulation with anti-CD154: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone, a sex steroid metabolite in development for systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Rituximab in antiphospholipid syndrome.
- Etanercept in antiphospholipid syndrome.
- Mycophenolate mofetil in antiphospholipid syndrome.
- Cyclosporin A in antiphospholipid syndrome.
- The antiphospholipid syndrome and atherosclerosis: clue to pathogenesis.
- Antibodies directed to protein S in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: prevalence and clinical significance.
- Anti-beta 2-glycoprotein I and antiphosphatidylserine antibodies are predictors of arterial thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome.
- Genetics of antiphospholipid syndrome.
- Diagnosis of the antiphospholipid syndrome: how far to go?
- Emergence of targeted immune therapies for systemic lupus.
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