Role of traditional Chinese medicine in prevention and treatment of complications after cerebrovascular stent placement
10.3969/j.issn.1673-8225.2010.17.046
- VernacularTitle:中医药在脑血管支架置入后防治并发症中的作用
- Author:
Hong LIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2010;14(17):3222-3225
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
DBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of complications following cerebrovascular stent placement.METHODS: A computer screen was performed for Science Direct database and Ei database between January 1960 and October2009,using key words of"traditional Chinese medicine,stent placement,complication",and the language was limited to English.At the same time,Chinese Journal Full-text database and Chinese Biomedical Literature database between January 1994 and October 2009 were searched for related articles,using key words of"traditional Chinese medicine,cerebral blood vessels,stent placement,complications",and the language was limited to Chinese.In addition,several monographs were manually consulted.The basic and clinical trials addressing the prevention and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine on the complications following cerebrovascular stenting were included.RESULTS: Subsequent to the cerebrovascular stent placement,the traditional Chinese medicine interventions include benefiting Qi,invigorating blood circulation,and eliminating phlegm,which all serve as the basic approach,in addition these interventions are accompanied by relieving Qi and stagnancy in liver,soothing the nerves and benefiting water,cooling blood and stopping bleeding.The commonly used traditional Chinese medicine compound is consisted of Shengmai San,Buyang Huanwu decoction,Xuefu Zhuyu decoction,sini decoction and resist decoction.Modern pharmacological studies have shown that a large number of traditional Chinese medicine and compound which are always used to benefit Qi,invigorate blood circulation,dissipate blood stasis and eliminate phlegm,can effectively prevent the complications following cerebrovascular stent placement through a multi-component,multi-target,multi-channel integration regulatory role.CONCLUSION: The traditional Chinese medicine interventions during the peri-operative period of cerebral vascular stent placement exhibit a feature of Chinese medicine and play an important role for improving the success rate of surgery,preventing and reducting peri-operative period and long-term complications.
