Evaluation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

S.Z. Mirzoev, U.R. Rasulov, M.N. Rahmatulloeva, G.S. Pardayeva

Chair of Internal Medicine №3 Avicenna TSMU

This paper presents the results of a study of clinical and radiographic changes in 46 patients (aged 32 to 60 years) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

All patients, depending on the nature of therapy were divided into two group, identical by sex, age and main clinical characteristics. Group I included 27 patients taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) without base AIR, in II - 19 patients treated with NSAIDs, and methotrexate (MTX) with rapid dose escalation to 15 mg / week and in the end 4,5,7 and 3 patients taken, respectively, 7.5, 10, 12.5 and 15 mg / week. MT.

Combined treatment with MT fast dose escalation under 15 mg / week. in combination with NSAIDs in patients with RA «aggressively» controls currency of RA during 12 months, contributes to eliminate most of clinical and laboratory parameters of disease activity, slows the destructive changes in joints, and in some of patients (26.3%) induces a state of clinical remission. In group II clinical improvements of X-ray parameters of RA progression occurred simultaneously with decrease of inflammatory markers levels (C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate), which emphasizes the key role of inflammation in progression of rheumatoid process

Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis, X-ray diagnostics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, methotrexate.

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