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Long-term outcome with gold thiosulphate and tiopronin in 200 rheumatoid patients
G F Ferraccioli1, F Salaffi, A Nervetti
1Rheumatic Disease Unit (RDU), University Hospital of Parma, Italy.
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
Two hundred rheumatoid patients were prospectively studied over a five-year period. One hundred and three received tiopronin (T) and 97 were treated with gold thiosulphate (GTS). At the end of the five-year period, similar percentages of patients dropped out because of lack of efficacy or because of major toxicities. Likewise, the percentages of patients still receiving the original drug in the two drug regimens at the 5th year of follow-up were 27.8% (GTS) vs. 25.2% (T), respectively.