[Experimental substantiation of the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with prednisolone and its combination with retabolil (clinico-experimental study)].

Fifty RA patients receiving prednisolone and prednisolone combined with retabolil were examined. Prednisolone made a negative effect on central hemodynamics, the effect being less with the use of retabolil. A dystrophic action of prednisolone on the myocardium and the weakening of this effect in a combined use of prednisolone and retabolil were shown on a RA model in rabbits.