Soumya Chatterjee, MD, is a rheumatologist with the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He sees patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other complex, multisystem rheumatologic conditions, and he has a special interest in scleroderma. Under his leadership, the Cleveland Clinic Scleroderma Program was established in 2005.
If you develop painful, swollen and stiff joints, you may have one of several potential causes of joint inflammation. That cause is rheumatoid arthritis for...