title: [Medical and socio-economical significance of rehabilitation of the patients with late postinfectious articular rheumatism].
abstract: As part of a clinical-epidemiological follow-up carried out between 1975 and 1979 in Iaşi, the evolution of the clinical and functional recuperatory process in a series of 269 patients with articular rheumatismal manifestations, out of which 67.6% caused by pharyngo-amigdalytis infections, was studied. The investigations on ASLO, fibrinogen, VSH, urinary sediment, ECG and presence of some germs, having etiological significance, in the nasopharyngeal exudate have brought data pleading for the infectious-allergic etiopathogenesis of an important number of the chronic articular rheumatism cases. The drug treatment and balneophysiotherapy had full recuperatory effects in 18.2% and partial ones in 57.6% of the cases. The cost of the recuperatory intervention is about 4-4,500 lei/year/patient.
authors.affiliation: Policlinica Municipiului Iaşi.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Furcoi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ivan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000989:Antistreptolysin / Q000097:blood; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001452:Balneology / Q000379:methods; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000378:metabolism; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007155:Immunologic Factors / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000150:complications; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications*; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014556:Urine / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D007155:Immunologic Factors; D005340:Fibrinogen; D000989:Antistreptolysin