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M Bély

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Clinical and histological evaluation of synovial needle-biopsies in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. I. Relationship between clinical activity and histological pattern.

In 50 patients suffering for 1-15 years from rheumatoid arthritis, needle-biopsy of the synovial membrane was carried out. The finding correlated with the general clinical activity of the disease. Each type of histological change was evaluated with regard to its diagnostic value in assessing clinical activity. Among the histological changes, oedema, synovial cell proliferation, lymphocyte-plasma cell proliferation and necrotic vasculitis showed a negative correlation with clinical activity, while a positive correlation was observed between clinical activity and the presence of fibrin (fresh and old), fibrinoid, fibrinoid basophilia, fibroblast proliferation, synovial cell desquamation, concentric perivascular sclerosis, fibrosis and hyalinosis. Vascular changes of the synovial membrane such as oedema, fresh fibrin exudate, necrotic vasculitis showed a negative correlation with clinical activity while hyalinization and concentric sclerosis and clinical activity were found to be in positive correlation. It is concluded that in the course of rheumatoid arthritis the histological changes do not necessarily run parallel with the clinical activity of the disease.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗

Clinical and histological evaluation of synovial needle-biopsies in rheumatoid arthritis. II. Relationship between local clinical activity and histological pattern.

The histological pattern of synovial needle-biopsies of 50 patients suffering from classical or definitive rheumatoid arthritis has been compared with the clinical activity of the disease. Each histological change was evaluated in terms of its value in characterizing local clinical activity. It was shown that most changes of the synovial ground tissue are in a positive correlation with local clinical activity. Among the vascular changes of the synovial membrane, oedema of vascular walls, exudation of fresh fibrin, leukocyte infiltration and thickening of vascular walls were in negative correlation, while chronic fibrin, lymphocytic or plasma cell infiltration and hyalinosis were in positive correlation with local clinical activity.

Arthritis, Rheumatoid↗

Cytochrome oxidase activity in bone tissue.

Cytochrome oxidase activity was studied in articular and epiphyseal cartilage, in bone tissue and in callus. Changes in the activity of the enzyme were observed after ischaemic condition. Activity was the highest in the epiphyseal cartilage while in the other structures it decreased in the order of articular cartilage, chondroid tissue, newly formed woven bone, connective tissue cells, immature, preexisting lamellar bone tissue. It is assumed that differences in enzyme activity are due to differences in metabolic rate. The higher the activity of a structure in the intact state, the more marked was its decrease upon ischaemia. This implies that cells of higher metabolic rate are more sensitive to ischaemia.

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Demonstration of rhodanese enzyme activity in bone tissue.

The activity of rhodanese enzyme was studied histochemically in the cells of bone tissue of various ages and in various states of differentiation, and in chondroid and epiphyseal cartilage tissue. Enzyme activity was higher in the preexisting, differentiated laminar bone tissue of young animals than in that of old animals, and higher in newly formed woven bone than in the preexisting lamellar one and higher in chondroid tissue and in epiphyseal cartilage than in the woven bone and chondroid tissue. These differences are thought to reflect differences in metabolic intensity of the different structures.

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