胸管ドレナージ

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Thoracic duct drainage (TDD) has an important role in the history of immunosuppression. Even though the immunosuppressive effect of TDD has been recognized, it has not been widely used in clinical cases. Basic experimental research has not been successful either. This is because studies in large animals were hampered, as they were in humans, by the difficulty of maintaining long-term external TDD. For rheumatoid arthritis patients, it has been obvious that immunosuppressive agents are effective to alter their condition. TDD also improves various symptoms of patients due to the depression of T lymphocytes. T lymphocyte depression is by mainly caused the depression of helper-T cells. Here, we describe the history, clinical and experimental results of TDD. TDD should still be one of the therapeutic method for rheumatoid arthritis patients if combined with other treatment.
日本アフェレシス学会の論文
1998-10-31