Combination therapy with cyclosporine and methotrexate in severe rheumatoid arthritis / 中国实用内科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate curative effects of treatment with Cyclosporine and methotreate in RA patients. Methods 118 cases RA patients,randomly divide into 57 cases of MTX(control)group to adopt 15 mg.per week, for six months,and 61 cases of MTX+CsA group to adopt cotreatment with the MTX 15 mg.per week and CsA 3 mg (kg?d)to observe post-treatment of the clinical signs and index of chemical analysis.Results the results show that the clinical signs and index of chemical of two groups both obviously improvement(P