Octreotide combined with traditional Chinese treatment of umbilical posted 54 patients with refractory ascites.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Octreotide combined with traditional Chinese treatment of umbilical posted 54 patients with refractory ascites [Keywords:] octreotide; medicine paste umbilical; refractory ascites Refractory ascites in patients with advanced cirrhosis is the most serious complication of approximately 50.0% of patients with refractory ascites in the event of death within six months (1,2). In recent years, domestic and foreign for refractory ascites treatment carried out many new technologies, new methods of research, but more complications of various treatments or high cost due to clinical application is limited (3). octreotide in the treatment of refractory ascites with liver cirrhosis have a better efficacy, our hospital from February 2007 to use octreotide treatment in 54 cases of Chinese medicine umbilical attached refractory ascites in patients with cirrhosis of the liver, obtained satisfactory results. 1 Materials and methods 1.1 General information select from February 2007 to March 2010 in our hospital infection associated with inpatient treatment of refractory ascites in cirrhotic patients with 108 patients, all patients are in line with version 6 lt;lt;within SCIENCES “gt; in cirrhosis diagnostic criteria (4), and ineffective treatment of ascites using the conventional methods. All the patients have to undergo a B-, CT or MRI examination, except cancer, portal vein thrombosis and the encapsulated fluid (thoracic and abdominal cavity.) of 108 patients were randomized into control group and the observation group, 54 patients in each group. observation group 31 male and 23 females; age 36 to 68 years (mean 51.6 + -11.3 years); which Child B stage in 23 cases, 7 patients with pleural effusions (bilateral in 2 cases the right side in 5 cases); Child C grade in 31 cases, 17 patients with pleural effusion (bilateral in 7 cases, the right side 10). control group, 34 males and 19 females; aged 32 to 70 years (mean 52.2 + - 11.2) years; of whi