[The immune status of scleroderma patients undergoing electroacupuncture].
Examinations of the immune status of 53 patients with local scleroderma (LS) have revealed changes in the cell-mediated (a deficit of T-lymphocyte population in the presence of an unchanged B-lymphocyte count) and humoral immunity (hyperproduction of the circulating immune complexes, of immunoglobulins A and M, the presence of antibodies to fixed lymphocytes). The patients have been treated by electroacupuncture according to an original method, effecting the points that stimulate suppressed immunity. 1-3 courses of treatment have yielded good results in 83% of the patients, mostly with the early stages of the disease. The treatment has been associated with a positive time course of a number of disturbed parameters of immune homeostasis; a correlation between the clinical and immunological efficacy of therapy has been noted.
Glavinskaia
T A
TA
Rezaĭkina
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Smirnova
A V
AV
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000917:Antibody Formation; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012074:Remission Induction; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy
Immunnyĭ status bol'nykh sklerodermieĭ pri élektroakupunkture.