Effect of angong niuhuang pill as an adjuvant treatment on moderate or severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic Encephalopathy.
- Author:
Wei-dong SU
1
;
Yu-dan HUANG
;
Er-li QU
;
Yu ZHANG
;
Wen YE
;
Manhua BAO
Author Information
- Publication Type:Clinical Trial
- MeSH: Asphyxia Neonatorum; complications; drug therapy; Drug Therapy, Combination; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; therapeutic use; Female; Humans; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain; drug therapy; etiology; Infant, Newborn; Male; Phytotherapy
- From: Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine 2005;25(7):652-654
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of angong niuhuang pill (ANP) as an adjuvant treatment on moderate or severe neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (NHIE).
METHODSThirty-nine neonates with NHIE in the control group were treated with conventional treatment, and 58 in the treated group were administered orally ANP additionally, and relative indexes were observed.
RESULTSThe improvement of aspects such as recovery of consciousness, muscular tension, and primitive reflex and disappearance of convulsion, in the treated group was better than that in the control group (P < 0.01).
CONCLUSIONANP as an adjuvant treatment has a definite effect on NHIE, it can promote the recovery of patients, decrease the occurrence of sequelae and with high safety, therefore, is a drug feasible for clinical application.
