Inflammatory rhumatisms simulating rheumatoid arthritis belong to the manifestations of the reactions of leprosy. Pathology of these arthritis variate with the type of reaction. In the present observations, it must probably be the transition from a tuberculoid leprosy to a lepromatosis form in which the immunological state looks like the lupus one.

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[Circulating immune complexes in rheumatoid arthritis. Results of a personal research (author's transl)].

Using the technic of Pillot and Grangeot (précipitation by PEG 6,000 at 2.5%, followed radial immuno-diffusion), the authors have detected circulating immune complexes (CIC) 38 times in a group of 55 RA. The presence of CIC is significantly more frequent in sero-positive RA, but without correlation between the concentration of CIC and the positivity rate of Waaler-Rose reaction. There is no correlation between the evolutive state of RA and the presence or the concentration of CIC. The sedimentation rate is, in mean, significantly higher in RA with CIC; but, among these, there is no correlation between sedimentation rate and the concentration of CIC. In the group studied, the CIC are present in all cases of RA with vasculitis or visceral symptoms.

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[Lumbago with localized muscular changes].

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[Clinical study of benorilate. Co-ordinated multi-centre test (author's transl)].

During a co-ordinated test realized by four centres of rheumatology, 91 patients had been treated by benorilate,giving so the possibility to appreciate its efficiency and its tolerance as well in the articulary fits of degeneration as in the inflammatory rheumatisms. The observations had been collected during ambulatory treatments and consequently in the conditions of daily practice. The efficiency of benorilate has been estimated by the two big disadvantages of the rheumatic person: importance of pains and capacity to do principal movements of daily life. The almost totality of patients having been preliminarily treated by another anti-inflammatory and/or antalgesic, the judgement aimed at the amelioration given by the benorilate : 41% of patients affected by arthropathy of degeneration feeled better or much better after taking benorilate. The amelioration reaches 61% for cases of rheumatoid polyarthritis. About the four criterions which could have been numerically quoted, the amelioration that had been observed is statistically significant. No anomaly had been pointed out as for the biological tolerance. The suspension form is well accepted by the rheumatic persons.

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