title: [Protective actions of acupoint magnetic medicated plaster therapy on hepatic function in the patient of cirrhosis after hepatitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the therapeutic effect of acupoint magnetic medicated plaster therapy on cirrhosis after hepatitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and twenty patients with cirrhosis after hepatitis were randomly divided into 2 groups. The control group (n=60) were treated by the hepatic protective therapy (diammonium glyeyrrhiznate, Silymarin, compound Tanshin, vitamin E), and the treatment group were treated by the liver-protective therapy and acupoint magnetic medicated plaster therapy, for 2-6 therapeutic courses. Clinical symptoms, hepatic function, serum markers of hepatitis B virus and indexes of hepatic fibrosis were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The markedly effective rate and the total effective rate were 65.0% and 95.0% in the treatment group, and 43.3% and 91.7% in the control group, and the serum indexes of hepatic fibrosis decreased signficantly, with significantly diferences (all P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupoint magnetic medicated plaster therapy can improve clinical symptoms, rapidly restore hepatic function, decrease serum indexes of hepatic fibrosis in the patient of cirrhosis after hepatitis.
authors.affiliation: Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. huangjiaquan@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Jia-quan
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Ju-hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Zhi-xiang
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Jian-jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015415:Biomarkers; D004063:Digestion; D006505:Hepatitis; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers