Indices of inflammatory activity. Relationship between isotope studies and clinical methods.
1970; BMJ; Volume: 29; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/ard.29.6.643
ISSN1468-2060
AutoresW C Dick, Martin Grayson, A Woodburn, G. Nuki, W. Watson Buchanan,
Tópico(s)Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
ResumoRheumatoid arthritis is still an incurable disease and its management must include the use of non- specific suppressive agents.The great majority of pharmacological agents in this class are drugs of relatively small effect.The difficulty of assessing any such drug is compounded by the spontaneous alterations in activity which are a feature of this disease.There is no difficulty in detecting major changes in disease activity clinically.However, although many methods of assessment have been studied, no single method has proved entirely satisfactory for the detection of small changes in inflammatory activity, and it is still common practice to employ several methods concurrently (Hollander, Stoner, Brown, and deMoor,
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