title: [Dermatoglyphics in patients with rheumatism].
abstract: Dermatoglyphic parameters were studied in 163 patients with rheumatic fever (111 women and 52 men aged 16 to 58) and in 200 controls (131 women and 69 men) in the Moscow population. Quantitative parameters of the patients did not differ from those of the controls. An analysis of the qualitative parameters showed statistically significant differences in the whole group of the patients as well as in relation to the presence and topical character of heart disease as compared to the controls. Differences in dermatoglyphic indices in particular clinical types of rheumatic fever were mainly associated with a type of phenotypical pattern on the fingers, the presence or absence of a pattern on thenar and hypothenar, a pattern type on the fourth and fifth fingers. The authors have been of opinion that the results obtained make it possible to predict, with a positive degree of probability, a possibility of development of disease as well as its outcome (the formation of heart disease).
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Belov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Miakotkin
mesh_terms: D003878:Dermatoglyphics; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000235:genetics*
vernacular_title: Dermatoglifika u bol'nykh revmatizmom.