Satisfaction and discontent of Polish patients with biological therapy of rheumatic diseases: results of a multi-center questionnaire study.

Objectives: Biologics are medications widely applied in the management of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. The drugs were found to be effective but their application is associated with some disadvantages. Medication with biologics is relatively expensive, and in Poland, it is carried out in specialized centers.

[Cystic lesions--diagnosis and conservative treatment].

Effective treatment of cystic lesions that we can apply in the outpatient clinic is the target for seeking a new solution in finding treatment that will produce a better percentage of recovered patients. At this moment non-surgical treatment of cystic lesions is compare with traditional methods of treatment i.e.

[Evaluation of mineral density in the distal radius during the course of rheumatoid arthritis].

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of progressive systemic disease predisposing for osteoporosis. Inflammatory process, applied treatment as well as considerably impared efficiency of motor organ create conditions for osteoporosis. The changes of bone mineral density in RA were assessed in 50 patients treated for various form of RA, at the Rheumatological and Rehabilitation Hospital in Cracow.