Wais Afzal, MD

A Specialist in Rheumatology

Dr. Wais Afzal is a rheumatologist and strives to provide individualized patient care. He treats bone, joint and autoimmune disorders.

He specializes in these procedures:

• Arthrocentesis: Dr. Afzal will use a syringe to collect fluid from a joint to diagnose conditions such as gout, arthritis and certain infections.
• Intra-articular injections: Treating inflammatory joint disorders by delivering a shot to the afflicted joint. This procedure relieves pain.
• Bursal aspiration: Removing fluid from the joints using a syringe. This treats bursitis, a painful condition afflicting joints. 
• Bursal injections: Steroid injections to soothe joint pain. These injections reduce inflammation and help relieve pain. 
• Skin punch biopsies: This diagnostic technique removes a cylindrical core of skin that is only a few millimeters in diameter. This biopsy is used to diagnose skin disorders.

He mainly treats:

• Adult-onset Still’s disease
• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Gout
• Inflammatory myositis
• Lupus
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Osteoarthritis
• Overlap syndromes
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Pseudogout
• Regional musculoskeletal disorders
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Scleroderma
• Seronegative spondyloarthritis
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
• Vasculitis

Dr. Afzal is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.

Speaks: English, Persian, Dari, Pashtu