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The value of synovectomy of the knee in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Ortop Traumatol Rehabil
February 2006
Katedra Podstaw Fizjoterapii, Wydział Fizjoterapii AWF, Katowice.
The goal of the present study is to evaluate the usefulness of synovectomy of the knee joint in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Synovectomy of the knee is the most common lower limb operation performed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Depending on the stage of the disease, the symptoms, and the degree of intra-articular changes in the radiological image, there are indications for performing both early and late synovectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRheometric studies of 34 synovial fluids done using a rheometer with a cone and stage (Shirley-Ferranti type) showed that arthrotic synovial fluids had pseudoplastic characteristics (non-Newtonian) but in inflammatory rheumatisms, the characteristics index rises, the consistency decreases and the fluid tends to loose its pseudoplastic properties and to become Newtonian. Radioisotope synoviorthosis seems capable of restoring to a certain extent and in certain cases the rheometric characteristics of the pseudoplastic properties.
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