title: [The calcitonin treatment of patients with algodystrophy].
abstract: 23 patients with algodystrophy, 28 up to 82 years of age, were treated with calcitonin during the period 1978-1988 and the effect of the treatment is discussed. The treatment was carried out with the drug Myacalcic "Sandoz" in a daily dose of 100 IU, administered intramuscularly every day in the course of 10 days. The following clinical parameters were followed up: pain, swelling, functional capacity, skin (dystrophic) changes. The patients are classified in 2 groups in relation to the results: I. group--acute stage and II. group--chronic stage of the disease. The pain was favourably influenced in both groups by the Myacalcic treatment. In the acute stage the swelling was favourably influenced in 81% of the patients, the skin changes in 89%, the functional capacity was improved 1.64 times. In the chronic stage the swelling was reduced in 25% of the patients, there was no effect on the dystrophic changes and the functional capacity decreased in spite of the treatment.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Solarova
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kŭnev
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002116:Calcitonin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: C028815:salmon calcitonin; D002116:Calcitonin
vernacular_title: Lechenie s kaltsitonin pri bolni s algodistrofiia.