Research Progress on Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

VernacularTitle:中医药治疗扩张型心肌病的研究进展
Author: Yanan ZHOU ; Yan XU ; Shiyun YAN
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Dilated cardiomyopathy; etiology and pathogenesis; treatment method; review
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;(8):1783-1786
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease which manifests with heart enlargement, myocardial contractile dys-function and arrhythmia. The disease cause is unknown. And the disease prognosis is not good with high fatality rate. There is no specific treatment for dilated cardiomyopathy in modern medicine. Currently, a large amount of clinical researches have been conducted by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scholars with relatively satisfied therapeutic effects. This article made a review on the etiology, pathogenesis, treatment method (including syndrome differentiation and treatment, modern application of ancient prescription, self-made prescription, and Chinese patent medicine liq-uid) and TCM treatment progress of dilated cardiomyopathy in order to show that TCM has certain advantages in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy.