METHOD FOR TREATING RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS OF KNEE JOINT

摘要

The invention relates to medicine, in particular to orthopaedy.The inventive task is to prevent expected recurrents after arthroscopic synovectomy in the treatment of patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.The method for treating rheumatoid arthritis of knee joint comprises a combined arthroscopic synovectomy according to the invention on detecting proliferative changes in synovial membrane with an arthroscope arthroscopic synovectomy is conducted with a shaver followed by cryosynoviortese by intraarticular exposition of liquid nitrogen vapor.The method of combined arthroscopic synovectomy with cryosynoviortese has hemostatic analgetic ability, subjects crude pathologic foci to cryodestruction and thus provides to obtain more reliable medical effect.