Anti-cytokine therapy of a patient suffering from psoriatic arthritis

Abstract

The article presents a clinical case study of an efficient therapy with infliximab used for a 33-year-old patient with a severe course of psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, psoriatic onychopathy; chronic hepatitis C with the minimum activity, replication phase; hyper- and normatrophic scars affecting 40% of the body surface; cicatricial contractures; complicated posterior polar cataract of both eyes; secondary amyloidosis of the kidneys with a nephrotic syndrome. It also demonstrates the significance of the anti-cytokine therapy as a method of choice in a complicated clinical situation.

Keywords

• псориаз
• псориатический артрит
• инфликсимаб
• гепатит с
• амилоидоз почек
• psoriasis
• psoriatic arthritis
• infliximab
• hepatitis c
• amyloidosis of the kidneys