[Effect of long term treatment with trenimon in chronic progressive polyarthritis]

It is reported on the therapeutic effects with trenimon in patients with rheumatoid arthritis half a year and one year after the end of the treatment. When critically judged the quota of success was 32.5% for the total judgement after half a year. Significant relations dosis-effect could be ascertained only for the parameters of clinical activity up to 1 year and humoral inflammatory signs after half a year. When the therapeutic success is assessed in any case the additional therapeutic expenditure must be taken into consideration. Before the beginning of the therapy there was no ascertained relation between success of therapy and duration of the disease, sex, age, activity and function.