Rheumatology Case Report: Deep Vein Thrombosis Detected by Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Increasing numbers of students and residents are graduating from programs with ultrasound curricula, and they will begin fellowship in rheumatology with established skills in POCUS to supplement their MSUS training. As leaders in MSUS, rheumatology fellowships are strongly positioned to integrate additional modalities of POCUS that show utility in diagnosis and monitoring of the broad extra-articular manifestations of rheumatic diseases.

Alvin Lee Day, MD, is in his third year of postgraduate education in the Department of Internal Medicine, Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C. He will begin a rheumatology fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham this year.

James W. Fant Jr., MD, is an associate professor of clinical internal medicine, and director of the Division of Rheumatology, Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C.

Michael Wagner, MD, FACP, RDMS, is an assistant professor of clinical internal medicine and director of internal medicine ultrasound education at Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C.

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