Advance in the treatment of arthritis

1995/12/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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One of the factors that cause rheumatoid arthritis could be TNF. The rheumatoid TNF factor appears naturally in the human body. On the contrary, this factor presents an abnormal growth in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The latest research carried out by the doctors of Charing Hospital was based on the study of the origins of rheumatoid arthritis, and it seems that this time they have fully successful.

According to the trials carried out so far, the use of antibodies against the TNF factor allows to relieve the symptoms of the disease, but to date they have not managed to make these symptoms completely disappear. As we know, this type of arthritis is suffered mostly by women between the ages of twenty and fifty.

It produces inflammation and deformation of the joints and is considered a chronic disease. Although it does not affect its origin, the use of TNF antibodies has a great advantage over other remedies: unlike others, TNF antibodies have no side effects. Although it is not possible to complete it completely, it improves the patient's living conditions in a different way than before.