Dr. Ira N Targoff MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
825 Ne 10th St Oupb 2300 Oklahoma City OK, 73104About
Dr. Ira Targoff is a rheumatologist practicing in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Targoff specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Targoff treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Rheumatology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The association of anti-Ro52 autoantibodies with myositis and scleroderma autoantibodies.
- Genetic risk and protective factors for idiopathic inflammatory myopathy in Koreans and American whites: a tale of two loci.
- Characterization of an autoantigen associated with chronic ulcerative stomatitis: the CUSP autoantigen is a member of the p53 family.
- Update on myositis-specific and myositis-associated autoantibodies.
- Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy: autoantibody update.
- Laboratory testing in the diagnosis and management of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
- Autoantibodies in polymyositis.
- Novel classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies based on overlap syndrome features and autoantibodies: analysis of 100 French Canadian patients.
- Cloning of a complementary DNA coding for the 100-kD antigenic protein of the PM-Scl autoantigen.
- Myositis specific autoantibodies.
- Clinical and immunogenetic features of patients with autoantibodies to
- Heterogeneity of autoantibodies in 100 patients with autoimmune myositis: insights into clinical features and outcomes.
- Autoantibodies and their significance in myositis.
- Immunoprecipitation-western blot for proteins of low abundance.
- Polymyositis.
Treatments
- Psoriasis
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Gout
- Osteoarthritis
- Lupus
- Pain
- Dermatomyositis
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