Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk. 1996 ; (11): 52-6.

[New trends in the study of the primary fibromyalgic syndrome]

Zborovskii AB, Babaeva AR.

Branch of Institute of Rheumatism RAMN, Volgograd.

The study of 1240 patients making complaints of osteomuscular pains showed that 9.6% had clinical signs of primary fibromyalgia (PF). It provided new data on the clinical signs of PF, clinical and biochemical changes in this syndrome. The diagnostic and informative values of some signs and symptoms of PF are compared and new approaches to optimizing diagnostic criteria are outlined in the paper. The paper also gives new data on the combined therapy for PF, including the use of dimexide with nonhormonal antiinflammatory agents and sessions of acupuncture that promotes the normalization of dysfunctions. This may be useful for PF patients due to easy-to-use, available, and inexpensive treatment.