Dr. Victoria Kate Shanmugam M.D.
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
2300 M ST NW WASHINGTON DC, 20037About
Dr. Victoria Shanmugam is a rheumatologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Shanmugam 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. Shanmugam 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
Charing Cross & Westminster Medical Schools 1999
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Rheumatology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A comparison of immunometric and radioimmunoassay measurement of ACTH for the differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome.
- Lower extremity ulcers in connective tissue disease.
- Voriconazole-associated myositis.
- Rheumatologists' awareness of and screening practices for hepatitis B virus infection prior to initiating immunomodulatory therapy.
- Renal manifestations in scleroderma: evidence for subclinical renal disease as a marker of vasculopathy.
- A thirteen year old female with primary T-cell rich B-cell lymphoma of bone masquerading as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis.
- Comparison of indirect immunofluorescence and multiplex antinuclear antibody screening in systemic sclerosis.
- The CIRAS study: a case control study to define the clinical, immunologic, and radiographic features of aromatase inhibitor-induced musculoskeletal symptoms.
- Levamisole-induced occlusive necrotising vasculitis in cocaine abusers: an unusual cause of skin necrosis and neutropenia.
- Renal disease in scleroderma: an update on evaluation, risk stratification,
- Impact of subspecialty elective exposures on outcomes on the American board of internal medicine certification examination.
- Matriptase regulates proliferation and early, but not terminal, differentiation of human keratinocytes.
- Utility of a human-mouse xenograft model and in vivo near-infrared fluorescent imaging for studying wound healing.
- A 66-Year-Old Woman With Hemoptysis.
- Electrochemical detection of Pseudomonas in wound exudate samples from patients with chronic wounds.
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Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Lupus
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Pain
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