Dr. Francisco Castro Dominguez

FranciscoCastro Domínguez

Specialty:
Rheumatology
Serving specialties:
  • Reumatología
Hospitals where he/she works:
  • Centro Médico Teknon
Consultation: Despacho 53
General Information

Dr. Francisco Castro-Domínguez is a recognized specialist in Rheumatology located at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona, Spain.

He holds his MD degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela. As part of his studies, he made an internship at the Humboldt University of Berlin, attending to the Charité Hospital.

Years later, he received his specialization in Rheumatology after completing his residency at the Hospital del Mar i l'Esperança in Barcelona. He performed a subspecialization in knee osteoarthritis and sports medicine at the Royal North Shore Hospital of the University of Sydney and completed his training with a Master's Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Barcelona and a doctoral researcher fellowship at the Cartilage and Inflammation Research Unit at the Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques Institute.

He is currently Section Chief of Rheumatology at the Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona, and holds the position of coordinator for the Osteoarthritis Working Group of the Spanish Rheumatology Society (ARTROSER), collaborating as a researcher in several multidisciplinary projects aimed to address the knee osteoarthritis phenotypes. He also collaborates as an advisor in institutional projects related to shared decision-making and best practices for patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis.

He is a coordinator of projects such as the Spanish Rheumatology Society (SER) Osteoarthritis Annual Meeting and the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) Annual Review. He is also a member of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology National Congress Scientific Committee, of the SER-OARSI Precision Medicine in Knee Osteoarthritis Symposium, and co-chair of the session "Remarkable Findings in Osteoarthritis Clinical Research" at The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Annual Congress.

Techniques
  • Expert in musculoskeletal ultrasound.
  • Expert in interventional techniques under ultrasound control such as diagnostic arthrocentesis and therapeutic infiltrations.
  • Expert in regenerative medicine techniques with biologic and cellular therapies for the treatment of sports injuries and pathology due to joint wear and tear.
  • Assessment and study of synovial fluid under polarized light optical microscopy.
  • Advanced interpretation of bone densitometry for osteoporosis.
  • Periungual capillaroscopy for the study of systemic autoimmune diseases.
Diseases:
  • Knee osteoarthritis
  • Chondromalacia patellae
  • Hip osteoarthritis
  • Shoulder impingement syndrome
  • Shoulder osteoarthritis
  • Foot osteoarthritis
  • Nodular hand osteoarthritis
  • Erosive hand osteoarthritis
  • Cervical osteoarthritis
  • Cervicocobrachialgia
  • Neck pain
  • Lumbar osteoarthritis
  • Low back pain and sciatica
  • Muscle and tendon injuries
  • Osteoporosis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Palindromic rheumatism
  • Psoriasic arthritis
  • Spondyloarthropathies
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Reiter syndrome
  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • Microcrystalline arthropathies: Gout. Chondrocalcinosis.
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica
  • Vasculitis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Central and peripheral pain sensitization syndrome
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Raynaud's disease
  • Systemic sclerosis
  • Sjogren's syndrome
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Antiphospholipid syndrome
  • Behcet's disease
  • Inflammatory myopathies
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Paget's disease
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Joint hypermobility syndrome
  • Familial Mediterranean fever
Communications and Presentations

More than 50 communications, articles in scientific journals, books and presentations at a national and international level in the fields of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, gout, arthritis, spondylitis and lupus. Coordinator of the round table on osteoarthritis at the national congress of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology and of the annual course on osteoarthritis of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology.

Awards and certifications
  • Spanish Society of Rheumatology.
  • Catalan Society of Rheumatology.
  • Catalan Society of Sports Medicine.
  • Spanish Society of Healthcare Management.
  • EMEUNET European League Against Rheumatism.