Publications by authors named "St 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.
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.
The therapeutic action of cyclosporin A (Sandimmun): its application in rheumatoid arthritis.
Rom J Intern Med
February 1994
The main properties, mechanism of action, mode of administration, side effects and therapeutic indications of Cyclosporin A are reviewed, with special emphasis on its applications in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The drug administration in small doses, only in patients with severe RA, refractory to the usual antirheumatic therapy, was effective in a significant proportion of cases.
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