OBJECTIVETo analyze the clinical effectiveness of Compound Danshen Injection (CDI) in treating patients with early onset severe preeclampsia.

METHODSOne hundred and twenty patients with early onset severe preeclampsia were recruited and their gestational age ranged between 26 and 34 weeks. Sixty patients who volunteered to receive CDI were recruited as the treatment group, while 60 inpatients were recruited as the control group at the same time period. The routine therapy was given to those in the control group. CDI was intravenously dripped to those in the treatment group additionally by adding in 250 mL 5% glucose injection, once daily. The treatment for all lasted for 7 successive days. The D-dimer (DD), fibrinogen (Fg), hematocrit (HCT), tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), mean arterial pressure (MAP), 24 h urine volume (UV), 24 h urine protein (24 hUP), triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), apolipoprotein A (apoA1), apolipoprotein B (apoB), umbilical arterial S/D ratio (S/D), and amniotic fluid index (AFI) were compared between the two groups before and after treatment. The placenta weight (PW), neonatal weight (NW), 1 min Apgar scoring were compared between the two groups before and after treatment.

RESULTSThere was no difference in DD, Fg, HCT, t-PA, PAI-1, MAP, UV, 24 hUP, TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, apoA1, apoB, S/D, or AFI between the two groups before treatment (P>0.05). In the treatment group PAI-1, Fg, and 24 hUP decreased more after treatment, and they were lower than those of the control group after treatment. The UV and AFI increased and they were higher than those of the control group after treatment with statistical difference shown (P<0.05, P<0.01). In the control group the UV increased and 24 hUP decreased after treatment (P<0.01). There was no improvement in the rest indices (P>0.05). The PW, NW,and 1 min Apgar score > or = 7 were all higher in the treatment group than in the control group, showing statistical difference (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONCDI was helpful to improve the high condensation state of patients with early onset severe preeclampsia, protect important organs of the mother, and improve the prognosis of neonates.