Clinical Research of Invigorating the Kidney and Activating Blood Therapy on Treating Osteoarthritis Patients in the Pattern of Kidney Deficiency
- VernacularTitle:补肾活血法治疗肾虚型骨关节炎临床研究
- Author:
Yi LIU
;
Qing ZHOU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
invigorating the kidney and activating blood therapy;
kidney deficiency;
osteoarthitis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine
2006;0(10):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the clinical effiicacy and effect on cytokines of invigorating the kidney and activating blood fomula on treating osteoarthritis patients in the pattern of kidney deficiency. Methods 113 patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly divided into two groups including 56 cases of treatment group and 57 cases of control group, which were treated by invigorating the kidney and activating blood fomula and combinaton of Celecoxib and Glucosamine respectively. The clinical effiicacy of two groups were investigated by Womac osteoarthritis index and the average severity of OA index. The changes of serum inflammatory cytokines TNF-? and IL-6 were detected by ELISA. Results The total efficiency of the treatment group was 89.3% and better than the control group (P 0.05) compared with control group. The serum TNF-?, IL-6 levels of treatment group significantly decreased after treatment in treatment group (P
