Search Results - I. M. Marusenko

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of leflunomide versus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Subjects and methods. The study included 24 patients receiving leflunomide who underwent the determination of changes in the articular syndrome: the Ritchie index, the number of tender and s...

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Review on a problem of the development of atrial fibrillation in patients with thyrotoxicosis is presented. Thyrotoxicosis is one of the most frequent endocrine diseases, conceding only to a diabetes mellitus. The most frequent reasons of hyperthyroidism are Graves’ disease and functional thyroid au...

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The article describes the peculiarities of drug provision for patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in the Republic of Karelia. We present a clinical case of effective treatment with interleukin 17 inhibitor ixekizumab (IXE) in a randomized clinical trial and real clinical practice in a patient wi...

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Features of diagnostics and course of anemic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis patients Objective. To study features of anemic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pts, to estimate influence of disease modifying anti – rheumatic drug therapy efficacy on the course of anemic syndrome. Material and me...

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The article presents a clinical observation of a patient with severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Due to insufficient efficacy of systemic therapy of psoriasis biologic disease-modifying therapy was started, but it was associated with difficulties. Development of erythrodermic form of psoriasi...

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Objective: to estimate the incidence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the Republic of Karelia and to analyze the types of carbohydrate metabolism disorders.Patients and methods. The investigation enrolled 889 patients aged 18 years and older with RA treated in...

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Aim. To study the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and total risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in patients with gout depending on the presence of MS.Material and methods. 56 patients (aged 53.3±10.9 years; men 82%) with verified primary chronic gout [median disease duration 5.7 (2.0-8.5) ye...

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Objective. To assess Structum (chondroitin sulfate) efficacy in treatment of osteoarthritis in Republic of Karelia. Methods. 34 pts with osteoarthritis (mean disease duration 6,44±0,67 years) were included. Functional Leken score (FLS), pain at rest and at walk on visual analog scale (VAS), pts nons...

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Цель. Анализ распространенности ревматоидного артрита (РА) и остеоартроза (ОА) в Республике Карелия (РК). Результаты. В 2000 г по сравнению с 1998 и 1999 гг. в РК выявлен рост обшей заболеваемости болезнями костно-мышечной системы. Однако показатели общей заболеваемости были более низкими по сравнен...

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To study features of bacterial infections course in pts with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and changes of laboratory measures after focus of infection sanation. Material and methods. 46 pts with definite rheumatoid arthritis were examined at the time of comorbid infection (Cl) detection and after infect...

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Objective: to analyze the association of the polymorphic marker rs4537545 (C>T) in the IL6R gene with the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the population of the Republic of Karelia. Subjects and methods. The investigation included 190 samples of DNA extracted from the whole blood o...

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Actuality of cardiovascular diseases today determines the high interest to study pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and to searching new risk factors which could help to optimize primary and secondary prevention. Study the correlation between biomarkers of inflammation and traditional risk factors (TRF...

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Objective: to describe the portrait of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in real clinical practice, to assess disease activity from the point of view of a physician and a patient, functional status, quality of life (QOL), and the efficiency of the therapy performed.Patients and methods. The i...

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The article considers the results of an international multicenter randomized clinical trial of the efficacy and safety of the brand-name drug rituximab (MabThera), a monoclonal antibody against CD20 antigen of B cells, and its biosimi-lar drug (Acellbia®) (the BIORA study) in patients with rheumatoi...

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Janus kinase (JK) inhibitors block the intracellular signaling pathways that are responsible for the synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines and mediators, which in turn cause the activation of pain receptors and central sensitization (CS). It is suggested that JK inhibitors can rapidly eliminate pai...

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Objective: to study the rate of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components among gout patients in different regions of the Russian Federation. Subjects and methods. This cross-sectional multicenter study enrolled 2277 gout patients, including 1963 (86.2%) men and 314 (13.8%) women, from 12 independe...

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Objective: The aim of the NiSaXPA study is to evaluate the quality of diagnosing, socio-demographic characteristics and treatment tactics of patients with axial psoriatic arthritis (axPsA) in real-world clinical practice in the Russian Federation.Material and methods. The study involved 600 patients...

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