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    Default Southern California specialists?

    Does anyone have any recomendations for Wegeners specialists in southern California? I am newly diagnosed and trying to navigate this whole thing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Best of luck to you Shane. Many people on here with lots of experience & knowledge, willing to help. Closest I can answer your question is that I live in Phx and have great docs at Mayo Clinic specializing in and having a lot of experience with WG. As for SoCal, I would look into City of Hope???

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    Hello, I am wife to someone newly diagnosed with Wegener's. He is seeing Dr. Sydlo (sp?) a rheumatologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Group in Los Angeles. My husband is her 4th WG patient.
    We have not yet sought out specialists at Mayo or Cleveland Clinic or other centers. My husband is 64 and is now on a regimen of Prednisone, Cytoxan and Coumadin.
    I am interested in hearing about other specialists and treatment protocols.
    Thanks!

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    Don't know anything about Cedars other than they have top notch people. The advantages of a Johns Hopkins, Mayo, Cleveland, and a few others is that they are self contained in all ways...they talk with each other, their diagnostic services are immediate, they are incredibly organized, and, for many of them, research is their main effort while practice is just that, they apply what they learn so their techniques, drug applications, etc. may be further along and more up to date than most places. Best of luck.

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    You might be at a good spot. I seem to remember hearing that Cedars-Sinai is starting a vasculitis center, but I do not know which doctors are involved. Probably it would be under the auspices of the rheumatology department.

    Al

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    Thank you everyone. I will look into Cedars for a specialist. I seem to have a pretty good Rheumatologist here but have been told that having a specialist would be a good thing. My doctors tell me they caught it early, no kidney involvment and only minor lung involvment, which has been cleared up. I am starting Rituxan this week and am a little concerned about the side effects. I am currently taking 50mg of prednisone everyday but am told that will be tapered as the Rituxan starts to take effect. Just trying to navigate my way through this thing. Thanks again to everyone for their input.

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    Default Re: Southern California specialists?

    Dr. Swamy Veneturapalli in Beverly Hills is very knowledgeable and is affiliated with Cedar’s.


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