HEMOSORPTION IN THE REGULATION OF CA METABOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS

A clinical response to hemosorption and the alterations in the calcium regulatory systems associated with the treatment mentioned were studied in 42 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The use of hemosorption in the multiple modality treatment resulted in a manifest clinical and laboratory positive effect featured by the improvement of the general condition of the patient, a decrease in the values of the joint syndrome and the activity of the inflammatory processes as it was evidenced by routine laboratory tests and the time-course of the contents of beta-2-Microglobulin in the blood and synovial fluid. Hemosorption helped the correction of the performance of the systems of calcium regulation: a decrease in parathyrine contents, an increase in the contents of calcidiol, osteocalcine, and ionized calcium.