The greatest challenge in Rheumatology isn’t recognizing disease. It’s recognizing when a disease is pretending to be something else.
SLE, vasculitis, sarcoidosis, IgG4-related disease, Adult-onset Still’s disease, and antiphospholipid syndrome can present across multiple organ systems and mimic infection, malignancy, neurological disorders, endocrine disease, and many other conditions.
🩺 Clinical Pearl:
When a patient has unexplained multisystem involvement, constitutional symptoms, elevated inflammatory markers, or unusual combinations of organ manifestations, think beyond the obvious diagnosis.
The diagnosis often lies in connecting seemingly unrelated clinical clues.
Which rheumatologic masquerader has fooled you the most in clinical practice?
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