title: [Research on relationship of syndrome type and parameters of hemorheology and platelet activation in patients with acute gout arthritis of dampness-heat blockage type and stasis-heat accumulate type].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the relationship between syndrome type and the parameters of hemorrheology and platelet activation in patients with acute gout arthritis of dampness-heat blockage (DHB) type and stasis-heat accumulation (SHA) type.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty patients with acute gouty arthritis were divided into 2 groups according to TCM syndrome differentiation, the DHB group (n=24) and the SHA group (n=16), and 20 healthy people were taken as the control group. Hemorrheological parameters, platelet activating factor (PAC-1) and P-selection (CD62p) in them were detected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Plasma viscosity, outcome of erythrocyte sedimentation and K value of its equation, levels of PAC-1 and CD62p were higher, erythrocyte electrophoresis index was significantly lower in gout patients of both types than those in the control group (all P < 0.01), and the levels of PAC-1 and CD62p in the SHA group were higher than those in the DHB group (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  DHB type and SHA syndrome type of acute gout arthritis are correlated with parameters of hemorrheology and platelet activation, and the different levels of these pameters showed in the two types, may be the internal factors for their genesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of TCM, Shenzhen Hospital, Peking University, Guang-dong. shaopeisz@126.com
authors.forename: Pei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Xing-tao
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zjang
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006073:Gout / Q000097:blood / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018056:Hemorheology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D019007:P-Selectin / Q000097:blood; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D015539:Platelet Activation; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D019007:P-Selectin; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor