The Advantages of Ultrasound with Clinical Examination

Prof. Wolfgang Schmidt, a German rheumatologist discusses in this podcast how combining ultrasound with clinical examination is extremely beneficial to medical professionals and can help them diagnose patients who are in pain but there are no visible symptoms.

Ultrasound is more commonly used to see inflammation and damage to structures to help rheumatologists make a diagnosis and decisions for what kind of treatment the patient should receive.

In this podcast, Prof. Schmidt goes on to discuss how ultrasound has helped him diagnose many diseases such as arthritis, vasculitis, and large vessel vasculitis. With ultrasound, Prof Schmidt can identify inflammation of the glands, examine artery walls and show calcification within these aspects.

There is a wide range of problems and findings that can be achieved and studied through sonography: making ultrasound a vital tool for rheumatologists.

Listen to this podcast to learn more about the advantages of ultrasound with clinical examination and courses that are available to medical professionals.