[Characteristics of microcirculatory changes in various forms of rheumatoid arthritis in children]

Using the method of biomicroscopy of bulbar conjunctiva with application of vessel gaging the authors made observation of 125 patients: 110--with RA and 15--with reactive arthritis. Marked vascular and intravascular changes in combination with dilatation of the capacitive vessels and narrowing of the resistive ones in vasculo-visceral form of RA correlated with the increase of immunological indices of the blood. In patients with vascular form of RA less marked changes of the vessels in dilatation of the capacitive part correlated with immunological indices of the synovial fluid.