Mud treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with an immunologic deficiency.

Gorchakova GA, Pavlova ES, Ruchkina AS, Skridonenko AD
Vopr Kurortol Fizioter lech Fiz Kult 1989 Sept-Oct
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The response to pelotherapy has been assessed clinically and immunologically basing on t-lymphocyte count. Altogether 124 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients were examined. In  patients with low baseline levels of T-lymphocytes the effect of pelotherapy appeared inferior to that in patients with normal T-lymphocyte counts.

It was suggested that T-cell immunosuppressed RA patients should receive combined therapy with mud applications and anabolic stimulator potassium ortate.

PMID: 2603406, UI: 9010429

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