title: [Relationship between coronary angiography and syndrome differentiation type of TCM].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the relationship between the coronary Angiography (CA) reflected degree of coronary artery lesion and the TCM Syndrome Differentiation-type (TCM-SDT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients TCM-SDT were differentiated adopting the standard of Syndrome Differentiation for coronary artery diseases revised in 1990, and the comparison of TCM-SDT with the findings in CA was carried out.
  
  
  RESULTS
  CA examination showed that 29 patients (39.73%) were of one-artery lesion, 9 patients (12.33%) two-artery lesion and 35 patients (47.95%) three-artery lesion; the stenosis degree of them were: 54 arteries were mild stenosis, 38 moderate stenosis and 31 severe stenosis; 29 arteries were completely occluded, the sum total of affected artery was 152 (69.41%), and the other 67 arteries (30.59%) had no lesion. TCM-SDT showed that all the 73 patients had secondary Excess Syndrome, among them 73 patients (100%) with blood stasis Syndrome, 39 patients (53.4%) with Phlegm-Turbid Syndrome, 16 (21.0%) with Qi-stagnation Syndrome and 7 (9.6%) with Cold condensation Syndrome. 63 patients (86.3%) with obvious primary Deficiency Syndrome, among them, 57 (78.1%) were Qi-Deficiency, 18 (24.7%) Yang-Deficiency, 28 (38.4%) Yin-Deficiency and 5 (6.8%) Yang collapse. All patients had blood stasis of various degrees, manifesting on tongue proper prominently. In the 80.8% patients who had angina pectoris, 74.0% had their mouth, lips and gum dark red, dark purple or light dark in color. The comparison between TCM-SDT and Blood-Stasis score revealed that patients of Cold condensation-blood stasis Syndrome and Yang collapse-blood stasis Syndrome were serious. Patients of Qi stagnation-blood stasis Syndrome and Yin Deficiency-blood stasis Syndrome were mild cases, while patients of Phlegm Turbid-blood stasis Syndrome and Qi Deficiency-blood stasis Syndrome were moderate severity cases. The number of affected artery in Cold condensation patients was the most, and in Yin-Deficiency patients was the least. The coronary artery stenosis degree in patients of Qi-stagnation and Yin-Deficiency were milder than in those of Yang-collapse and Yang-Deficiency patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The more the number of arterial lesion, the severer the degree of stenosis and the higher the blood stasis score, then the more serious the degree of stasis.
authors.affiliation: Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of TCM, Beijing 100091.
authors.forename: X C
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: T Y
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*