Department of rheumatology is a department that medically treats symptoms of inflammation in tissues, muscles, bursa, tendons and vessels that surround the joints and diseases of the joint itself.
Typical diseases include degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Behcet's disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, myositis, fibromyalgia, systemic sclerosis and vasculitis.

Related diseases : Rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative arthritis/systemic lupus erythematosus, spondylarthritis ankylopoietica, Behcet’s disease, Sjogren's syndrome, systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and other kinds of angitis, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic diseases like gout.