Dr. William Joseph Mccune MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
1500 East Medical Center Dr 3rd Floor Taubman Ct Ann Arbor MI, 48109About
Dr. William Mccune is a rheumatologist practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Mccune 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. Mccune 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
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevention of infectious complications in rheumatic disease patients: immunization, Pneumocystis carinii prophylaxis, and screening for latent infections.
- Chimeric anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha monoclonal antibody treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving methotrexate therapy.
- Decreased Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling may cause DNA hypomethylation in T lymphocytes from lupus patients.
- Drug-induced pneumonitis: the role of methotrexate.
- The apoptotic ligands TRAIL, TWEAK, and Fas ligand mediate monocyte death induced by autologous lupus T cells.
- New evidence for vascular disease in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis.
- Tolerability of mycophenolate mofetil in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Increased incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in women with systemic lupus erythematosus treated with intravenous cyclophosphamide.
- Brief communication: high incidence of venous thrombotic events among patients with Wegener granulomatosis: the Wegener's Clinical Occurrence of Thrombosis (WeCLOT) Study.
- The effect of combined estrogen and progesterone hormone replacement therapy on disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomized trial.
- Damage caused by Wegener's granulomatosis and its treatment: prospective data from the Wegener's Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial (WGET).
- Immunosuppressive drug therapy for rheumatic disease.
- MRI and 2D-CSI MR spectroscopy of the brain in the evaluation of patients with acute onset of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Risk of cancer in dermatomyositis or polymyositis.
- Advances in immunosuppressive drug therapy for use in autoimmune disease and systemic vasculitis.
Treatments
- Lupus
Fellowships
- Internal Medicine Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital 1981
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