[Clinico-immunologic analysis of sorption methods of treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus].

The paper is concerned with the results of the application of the sorption methods for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. The authors show the advisability of the use of the above methods for different variants of the disease course, define the time of the treatment and complications common to the sorption methods of the treatment. The results of the treatment by hemoperfusion and enterosorption are compared with the results of the patients' treatment with immunodepressants. A study was made of the action of the sorption methods and immunodepressants on the blood content of the main autoantigens and autoantibodies capable of participation in the forming of the immune complexes. The concentration and the qualitative composition of the circulating immune complexes were studied in the course of the treatment.