title: [Progress in integrative Chinese and Western medicine study on prevention and treatment of myocardial fibrosis].
abstract: Myocardial fibrosis is an inevitable process of many heart diseases, such as coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, etc. in development from earlier period to terminal stage. To prevent or reverse the process of fibrosis is one of the most important approaches to retard the occurrence of heart failure and reduce the accidence of arrhythmia. In traditional Chinese medicine myocardial fibrosis belongs to the category of "Xinbi". Studies on the occurrence and regulation of myocardial fibrosis, and its treatment by using integrative Chinese and Western medicine or by Chinese drugs singly and their components were reviewed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Disease Center of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing.
authors.forename: Hai-xiao
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zai-xiang
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D008517:Phytotherapy
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal