[Clinical study on treatment of severe acute pancreatitis by integrative Chinese and Western medicine combined with somatostatin].
OBJECTIVE
To study whether the therapeutic effect could be enhanced by combined use of somatostatin and conventional integrative Chinese and western medicine (TCM-WM) in treating severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).


METHODS
Sixty patients of SAP were randomly divided equally into the somatostatin group (Group A) and the baseline treated group (Group B), they were all treated with non-surgical TCM-WM treatment, but to Group A, the intravenous injection of somatostatin 250 micrograms/h for 72 hrs continuously was given additionally. Laboratory parameters, condition of disease and therapeutic effect indexes, including occurrence of organic dysfunction, local complication and mortality, between the two groups were compared.


RESULTS
The recovery of serum levels of amylase, lipase, C reaction protein, lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, as well as the scores of APACHE II in Group A were quicker than those in Group B (P < 0.05). The occurrence of organic dysfunction and local complication in Group A were lower to those in Group B, but without statistic significance. Comparison of the mortality in the two groups showed insignificant difference (P > 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
The early stage short course of combined TCM-WM and somatostatin treatment could improve the condition of SAP, but its effect on mortality should be further verified by enlarging the sample size.
Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041. xiaqing@medmail.com.cn
Qing
Q
Xia
Lin
L
Yuan
Xiao-nan
XN
Yang
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008517:Phytotherapy; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D013004:Somatostatin