Clinical Trial of Penicillamine in Rheum
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Norman O. Rothermich; Marvin H. Thomas; Vol K. Phillips; Waldemar Bergen
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Article
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1981
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The medical records of our first 200 consecutive rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with penicillamine were analyzed retrospectively. All but 5 patients (97.5%) had undergone earlier chrysotherapy that resulted in either therapeutic failure or toxicity. Only 57 patients (28.5%) were