Dr. Robert Lewis Wortmann MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
One Medical Center Dr Dhmc Rheumatology Lebanon NH, 03756About
Dr. Robert Wortmann is a rheumatologist practicing in Lebanon, NH. Dr. Wortmann 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. Wortmann 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
University of Michigan Medical School 1979
University of Wales in Great Britain 1971
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Metabolic and mitochondrial myopathies.
- The clinical laboratory evaluation of the patient with noninflammatory myopathy.
- Purine nucleoside phosphorylase: the normal enzyme and structural alterations in immunodeficiency disease.
- Purine nucleoside phosphorylase: the normal enzyme and structural alterations in immunodeficiency disease.
- Gout and hyperuricemia.
- Lipid-lowering agents and myopathy.
- Differentiating idiopathic inflammatory myopathies from metabolic myopathies.
- The dilemma of treating patients with inclusion body myositis.
- Treatment of acute gouty arthritis: one physician's approach and where this management stands relative to developments in the field.
- Polymyositis: an overdiagnosed entity.
- Joint replacement. The primary care physician's role.
- Febuxostat, a novel nonpurine selective inhibitor of xanthine oxidase: a twenty-eight-day, multicenter, phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-response clinical trial examining safety and efficacy in patients with gout.
- Recent advances in the management of gout and hyperuricemia.
- Dose-related statin myopathy: is it an issue?
- Academic rheumatology: like it, leave it, or fight to change it.
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