METHOD FOR DETERMINING MANIFESTATION OF ARTHRAGRA Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/48 A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine and aims at determining the manifestation of arthragra. A method involves determining the presence of tophi, a quantity of aggravations for a year, blood serum uric acid and calculating an index. The patient is additionally examined to determine signs of arthragra according to classification criteria presented in Table 1 included in the description to determine a quantity of the arthragra criteria and to calculate an index of the manifestation of arthragra by formula: IMA = the quantity of the arthragra + 3 × the presence of tophi + QAmonth + UAEF, wherein IMA is the index of the manifestation of arthragra; the presence of tophi: no tophi - 0, tophi - 1; QAmonth is the quantity of aggravations, months; UAEF is a blood serum uric acid excess factor.

EFFECT: method enables determining the manifestation of arthragra for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of the therapy, dynamics of the patient's state for long-term prospective follow-up.

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