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Rule of Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation in the patients with thoracic diseases at perioperation stage

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Abstract

Objective

To study the rule of syndrome differentiation in the patients with thoracic diseases at perioperation stage.

Methods

A standard was created referring to the related literature, and it was applied to differentiate the Chinese medicine syndrome in 150 patients before and three days after thoracic operation.

Results

Before operation, Chinese medicine syndromes were as differentiated as phlegm type in 45.3%, blood stasis type in 17.3%, and qi-stagnancy type in 16.0%. The patients with asthenia syndrome markedly increased after operation, accounting for 34.0% (51 patients, including qi-, yin-, and blood-deficiency syndromes). The most frequently seen intermixed syndromes were qi-deficiency with phlegm-stasis syndrome and Pi (脾)-deficiency with phlegm-dampness syndrome. The intermixed syndromes revealed in 37.5% and 42.0% of the patients before and after operation, respectively.

Conclusions

The syndrome in the patients with thoracic disease before operation was mostly the excessive syndrome, mainly the phlegm syndrome type; at postoperation stage, Chinese medicine syndrome in patients become asthenia in essence with excessive superficiality, which is mostly revealed as Pi-deficiency with phlegm-dampness.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hangzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 310007, China

    Xiao-qing Fu  (傅晓青), Yong Yang  (杨 勇), Li-wen Dong  (董礼文), Gen-miao Cheng  (程根苗) & Jun Wang  (王 军)

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Supported by Health Bureau of Zhejiang Province (No. 2008CA081)

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Fu, Xq., Yang, Y., Dong, Lw. et al. Rule of Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation in the patients with thoracic diseases at perioperation stage. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 17, 351–354 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-011-0725-z

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