Astragalus adjuvant treatment of 33 cases of viral myocarditis in children Efficacy.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 4 Astragalus adjuvant treatment of 33 cases of viral myocarditis in children Efficacy [Abstract] Objective To study the Chinese medicine treatment efficacy in children with viral myocarditis. Methods 66 patients were randomly divided into two groups and a control group of 33 cases, the observation group in the control group was added based on the treatment of intravenous astragalus, controlled clinical observation. Comparing the results of therapeutic effect to observe the group, the total effective rate was 100% in control group, the total efficiency of 87.9%. Observation group was significantly better than the control group. Conclusion Astragalus adjuvant treatment of pediatric viral myocarditis safe, effective, and worthy of clinical application. [Keywords:] Myocardial diseases / therapy; viral diseases; baby; Astragalus; Herbal / therapeutic use Children with viral myocarditis, there is no specific treatment at present. Court on the basis of conventional therapy plus adjuvant treatment with astragalus and obvious effect, are reported below. 1 Data and methods 1.1 The clinical data of 2003  03 ~ 2008  09 Liaoyang City, Third People’s Hospital pediatric viral myocarditis in children admitted to children with 66 cases, 46 cases were male and 20 female; age of 18 months to 12 years, with an average age (22.0 ± 1.5) months; the shortest duration of 10 d, up to 66 d; average length of stay (22.0 ± 3.4) d. Were divided into odd and even numbers according to their bed numbers the observation group and control group of 33 cases. Two groups of children in sex, age, course of disease was no significant difference in comparison with a comparable. 1.2 Western diagnostic criterion-referenced diagnostic criteria version 6 ‘diagnostic criteria for viral myocarditis (1999 Revised Draft)’ [1] and 7 edition of ‘Zhu Futang Practical Pediatrics’ [2]. TCM diagnostic criteria in accordance with the State Pharmaceutical Administration in 1994 editi