Symposium of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology APLAR 2013

The Symposium of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology is deicated to the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological disorders.

Key Topics

• Non biologic treatment
• Rheumatoid arthritis: prognosis, predictors, outcome, clinical aspects and co-morbidity, anti-TNFα therapy, non-TNFα biological therapies
• Spondylarthropathies: clinical aspects and co-morbidity, biological and non-biological therapies, Psoriatic arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis
• Systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren`s and antiphospholipid syndrome: therapies and clinical aspects, comorbidities and complications
• Systemic vasculitis
• Metabolic bone diseases and crystal-induced diseases
• Infection-related rheumatic diseases
• Scleroderma, myositis and related syndromes
• Soft tissue rheumatism
• Fibromyalgia
• Behcet`s disease and miscellaneous rheumatic conditions
• Pediatric rheumatology
• Epidemiology, health care system and pharmacoeconomics
• Imaging techniques and diagnosis
• Advances in pain management
• Rehabilitation for rheumatic diseases
• Physiotherapy
• Nursing
• Psychological intervention and miscellaneous forms of care
• Occupational therapy
• Alternative medicine