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  • Title: [The immune status of scleroderma patients undergoing electroacupuncture].
    Author: Glavinskaia TA, Rezaĭkina AV, Smirnova AV.
    Journal: Vestn Dermatol Venerol; 1989; (4):44-7. PubMed ID: 2788340.
    Abstract:
    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.
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