[Advances of combined treatment for chronic hepatitis B with lamivudine].
This paper summarized the effects of the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) by lamivudine combined with traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine in the past few years. Combined treatment of lamivudine and the other medicine had higher efficiency than lamvudine alone in the treatment of CHB. The Combined treatment should be a tendency of the treatment for chronic hepatitis B. The focal point is that the traditional Chinese recipe produces a multitarget effect in the treatment of CHB. The combined treatment of lamivudine and traditional Chinese recipe can reduce the treatment course and the recurrence rate. Combined treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine has notable superiority and broad developing prospect in the treatment of CHB.
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Tao
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Department of Basic Medicine, Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan Province 650200, China. rosyrain@163.com
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Wen-Hui
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D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007372:Interferons / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019259:Lamivudine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D001084:Vidarabine Phosphate / Q000627:therapeutic use
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D001084:Vidarabine Phosphate; D019259:Lamivudine; D007372:Interferons