Publications by authors named "S Suteanu"
Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with loss of overall functionality of the locomotion system and it is connected with substantial economic losses.
Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and healthcare resource utilization characteristics and to analyze the correlations in a cross-sectional sample of 206 patients in Romania.
Method: RA cases have been enrolled from southern and western part of the country, covering a surface of 23 counties.
Objective: To compare the efficacy, safety and tolerability of different therapies in Caucasian patients with osteoarthritis (QA) of the knee.
Methods: Seventy-five cases (90 knee joints) of osteoarthritis were randomly divided into 3 groups, western medicine group, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) group, integrated Chinese and western medicine group. The western medicine group were treated with oral administration of Glucosamine Sulfate, oral administration and external application of non-steroid anti-inflammatory agent, ultrasound physiotherapy, etc.
Objective: To compare therapeutic effects, safety and tolerance of TCM, western medicine and integrated Chinese and western medicine for treatment of acute lumbosacral pain induced by prolapse of lumbar intervertebral disc.
Methods: Ninety cases were randomly divided into 3 groups, 30 cases in each group. They were treated respectively with western medicine, TCM and combined TCM and western medicine, and the pain intensity, activity, muscular tension, and other indexes were monitored after 7 days and 30 days of treatment.
Unlabelled: The aim of the study is to find and valid a clinical instrument which identifies the women that need a bone density measurement because of their high risk for osteoporosis.
Material And Method: A number of 356 women were enrolled in this study. They filled in a study formular and their bone density was measured by DEXA exam (dual energy X-ray absorbtiometry) in the lumbar spine and proximal femur.
Objective: To develop a Romanian version of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI) and to determine its metric properties in patients with spondylarthropathies (SpA).
Methods: A Romanian version of BASFI was obtained after translation, back-translation and pretesting. Altogether 41 SpA patients fulfilling the ESSG criteria were included, 34 of them satisfying the modified New York criteria for ankylosing spondylitis.