Research progress of drug therapy in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis
ZHANG Hong1 WANG Xuyun2 ZHENG Weikang1 ZHANG Chunyan1 WEI Ni1 LIU Meiqi1
1.Department of Rheumatology, Dongfang Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100078, China;
2.Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 101149, China
Abstract:Knee osteoarthritis is a common chronic degenerative disease of knee joint. In the advanced stage, the joint may appear to bend and stretch limitation, crouch difficult, and some people even can′t walk when it′s serious. Drug treatment plays an important role in the clinical treatment of knee osteoarthritis, but rational drug use has not received much attention. Drug treatment include oral and topical drugs. Most patients take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs for a long time, and they are not aware of the indications and side effects of their treatment; some patients do not know enough about the application of external drugs. Oral drugs include analgesics, cartilage protection drugs; intra-articular injection of drugs include hyaluronic acid, sodium vitreate, medical chitin, hormone drugs, autorich platelet plasma, ozone, etc. In addition, there are also topical drugs. This article mainly summarizes the drugs for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, in order to guide the clinical medication better and improve the therapeutic effect of knee osteoarthritis.
张宏1 王旭昀2 郑伟康1 张春艳1 韦尼1 刘美奇1. 药物治疗膝骨关节炎的研究进展[J]. 中国医药导报, 2018, 15(27): 38-41.
ZHANG Hong1 WANG Xuyun2 ZHENG Weikang1 ZHANG Chunyan1 WEI Ni1 LIU Meiqi1. Research progress of drug therapy in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. 中国医药导报, 2018, 15(27): 38-41.