DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/53 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: patient's synovial fluid is sampled, and patient's supernatant chemokines CXCL9/MIG, CXCL10/IP-10 and CXCL11/ITAC are measured. A diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is diagnosed, if at least one of chemokines exceeds a threshold; the chemokine thresholds make 2625.8 pg/ml for CXCL9/MIG, 3108.2 pg/ml for CXCL9/MIG and 32.4 pg/ml for CXCL11/ITAC respectively. If the measured values are below the thresholds for three chemokines at the same time, the absence of rheumatoid arthritis and potential osteoarthrosis are stated.

EFFECT: using the given method enables differentiating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthrosis by measuring specific markers in the synovial fluid taken from the location directly.

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