Dr. Peter A Merkel MD, MPH
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
250 King Of Prussia Suite 2c Penn Medici Wayne PA, 19087About
Dr. Peter Merkel is a rheumatologist practicing in Wayne, PA. Dr. Merkel 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. Merkel 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 1988
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rheumatic disease and cystic fibrosis.
- Subacute bacterial endocarditis with positive cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies and anti-proteinase 3 antibodies.
- Recombinant human relaxin in the treatment of scleroderma. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Evaluation of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody seroconversion induced by minocycline, sulfasalazine, or penicillamine.
- Drug-induced vasculitis.
- Prevalence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in patients with various pulmonary diseases or multiorgan dysfunction.
- Assessment of kidney involvement.
- Colchicine myopathy in a patient with familial Mediterranean fever and normal renal function.
- Diagnostic imaging in Takayasu arteritis.
- Hearing loss in Wegener's granulomatosis.
- Digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis: prevention by treatment with bosentan, an oral endothelin receptor antagonist.
- Scleroderma--developing measures of response.
- Epidemiology of Wegener's granulomatosis: Lessons from descriptive studies and analyses of genetic and environmental risk determinants.
- Durometry for the assessment of skin disease in systemic sclerosis.
- Myofibroblasts and hyalinized collagen as markers of skin disease in systemic sclerosis.
Clinical Trials
- Abatacept for the Treatment of Relapsing, Non-Severe, Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis (Wegener's)
- The Assessment of Prednisone In Remission Trial - Centers of Excellence Approach
- One-Time DNA Study for Vasculitis
- American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism (ACR/EULAR) Diagnostic and Classification Criteria for Primary Systemic Vasculitis
- Determining Disease Activity Biomarkers in Individuals With Giant Cell Arteritis
- Determining Disease Activity Biomarkers in Individuals With Takayasu's Arteritis
- Determining Disease Activity Biomarkers in Individuals With Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Longitudinal Protocol for Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis (Wegener's) and Microscopic Polyangiitis
- Determining Disease Activity Biomarkers in Individuals With Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss)
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Lupus
- Scleroderma
- Pain
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