Integrative Medicine on the treatment of refractory nephrotic syndrome experience.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Integrative Medicine on the treatment of refractory nephrotic syndrome experience [Keywords: refractory nephrotic syndrome, Western medicine, diagnosis and treatment; hormones, cytotoxic drugs Nephrotic syndrome (RNS) is the primary nephrotic syndrome (NS) in the frequent recurrence, steroid dependent and resistant cases of the general, is the most difficult and the clinical treatment of diseases of poor prognosis, accounting for NS 50%. pathology is mainly focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranous nephropathy, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis was part of. December 1991 -2004 in December, I take the TCM and Western medicine treatment of the disease, 69 cases were good effect, are reported below. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General Information Method by drawing of lots for 138 patients with RNS were randomly divided into treatment group and control group 69 patients. The treatment group, male 46 cases, 23 females, aged from 6 to 68 years, mean 29.7 years, duration of minimum 1 month, up to 12 years and 8 months, an average of 3 years and 9 months, 19 patients with steroid resistant, steroid-dependent in 18 cases, 32 cases of recurrent type, edema in 58 patients, 9 patients had pleural effusion, ascites in 11 cases, 6 patients with azotemia, hypertension in 58 cases, hematuria in 18 cases. Control group, 44 males and 25 females, aged 5 to 69 years, mean 29.8 years, duration of minimum 1 month, maximum of 13 years, an average of 3 years and 10 months, 20 patients with steroid resistant, steroid dependent, 18 cases 33 cases of recurrent type, edema in 57 patients, 9 patients had pleural effusion, ascites in 10 cases, 6 cases of azotemia, hypertension in 59 cases, 17 cases of hematuria patients .2 gender, age, condition and basically the same treatment group (P lt;0.05), comparable. 1.2 Diagnostic criteria Found lt;lt;common disease diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy (standard)gt;gt; [1] NS diagnostic criteria, and