title: [Clinical study on acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of plaque of carotid atherosclerosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on carotid plaque in the patient of carotid atherosclerosis due to ischemic cerebrovascular disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty cases were randomly divided into an acup-mox group and a drug group, 30 cases in each group. Plaque of carotid atherosclerosis and quality of the plaque were investigated by color B-ultrasonography and the thickness and area of the plaque were calculated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The resolution rate of the plaque was 53.9% in the acup-mox group and 10.0% in the drug group with a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.01), and with better effects on flat plaque and soft plaque. And the thickness and area of the plaque of corotid atherosclerosis were significantly reduced.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupuncture and moxibustion can improve the plaque of corotid atherosclerosis, so as to alleviate and prevent from occurrence and development of ischemic cerebrovascular diseases.
authors.affiliation: The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin TCM College, Tian-jin 300193, China. wangweizhi@sina.com
authors.forename: Wei-Zhi
authors.initials: WZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Zhan-Kui
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D009071:Moxibustion