[Observation on therapeutic effect of comprehensive therapy for acute large area cerebral infarction].
OBJECTIVE
To search for a method for increasing clinical therapeutic effect of acute large area cerebral infarction.


METHODS
Ninety-six cases were randomly divided into a comprehensive treatment group and a western medicine group, 48 cases in each group. The western medicine group were treated with routine western methods, dehydration for decreasing intracranial pressure, brain-protection, anti-platelet agglutination, improving circulation and expectant treatment, etc.; the comprehensive treatment group were treated with the routine treatment of western medicine combined with acupuncture, moxibustion and enema of Chinese drugs. The therapeutic effect was observed after treatment for 28 days.


RESULTS
The total effective rate was 68.8% in the comprehensive treatment group and 39.6% in the western medicine group with a very significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.01), and the score of the National Institute of Health's Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the score of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) in the comprehensive treatment group were better than those in the western medicine group (P < 0.001, P < 0.01).


CONCLUSIONS
Combined treatment of Chinese medicine and western medicine for large area cerebral infarction is better than simple western medicine, and it can significantly improve neurological defect of the patient and decrease death rate.
Bai
Hui-Mei
HM
Department of Acupuncture, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300150, China. baihuimei2007@163.com
Zhang
Yu-Lian
YL
He
Jian-Wei
JW
Zhang
Lian-Cheng
LC
Yang
Ying
Y
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged