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Preliminary Study on Acupuncture Combined with Grain-sized Moxibustion for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis with Finger Joint Pain
Published on: May 16, 2025
[Optimized treatment of a patient having rheumatoid arthritis and gout at the same time]
Dan Nordström1, Marjatta Leirisalo-Repo, Tom Petterson
1HYKS, Sisätautien ja Reumatologian Klinikka Helingin Yliopisto, Klininen Laitos.
Abstract:
Biologic TNF alpha blocker medication was started for a patient having active rheumatoid arthritis, because the disease was unresponsive to conventional drugs and the patient also 'had reactive amyloidosis. Due to weakening efficiency and simultaneously occurring gout the medication was replaced by an IL-1 receptor blocker, which in addition to controlling rheumatoid arthritis also acts by suppressing gouty attacks. Finding an optimized drug combination for rheumatoid patients will become easier with the increasing number of biologic drugs functioning through different mechanisms of action.
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