SYNOVECTOMY IN HEMOPHILIAC HEMARTHROSIS

Hemarthrosis subtalar, a rare diagnosis☆

Type B hemophilia usually affects patients with a family history of this disease and has a typical clinical picture. However, in the present case it appeared in a patient outside the typical age with no family history of hematologic malignancies and with an unusual clinical picture.

Dosimetric Evaluation in Radiation Synovectomy

Rheumatoid arthritis can manifest itself through synovitis, of which the knee is the common locale. The treatment using an intra-articular radioisotope injection has been applied in various countries. In this work, the dose of radioactive material absorbed in the joint is evaluated, taking into consideration the dose received in the articular cartilage and adjacencies using a three-dimensional ...

Synovectomy for rheumatoid arthritis.

Hemophiliac Adolescents - Spencer and Behar

U Mattsson and Gross have discussed the “coping mechanisms” which are used in successful adjustment to hemophilia in boys and young men2. In their study of 35 hemophiliac boys and young adults, 27 were considered to have adapted well at school, in the home, and with their peers, with few limitations except for those realistically imposed by the disease. In those instances of failure, difficulti...

T-Lymphocyte subpopulations in hemophiliac patients.

Laboratory data are presented on 15 patients with hemophilia A. Mean OKT4/OKT8 ratio in hemophiliac patients was significantly lower than in the controls. Although no patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been found in Japan, hemophiliac patients are supposed to be at increased risk of AIDS by our studies.