title: [Correlation between Chinese medicine syndrome types of polycystic ovary syndrome and ovulation induction effect].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the correlation between Chinese medicine syndrome types of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and ovulation induction effect, and its clinical significance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty patients with clinically confirmed PCOS were syndrome differentiated as four types, i.e., Shen-yin deficiency syndrome (21 cases), Shen-yang deficiency syndrome (18 cases), phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome (19 cases), and Gan-stagnancy transformed heat syndrome (22 cases). They all took 100 mg clomiphene as the ovulation induction for 5 successive days. Results of ovulation in all patients were analyzed and compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ovulation induction and the conception rate were sequenced from high to low as follows: Shen-yang deficiency syndrome (66.7%, 22.2%), Gan-stagnancy transformed heat syndrome (59.1%, 18.2%), Shen-yin deficiency syndrome (28.6%, 9.5%), and phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome (26.3%, 5.3%). Significant difference was shown in ovulation induction results when compared Shen-yang deficiency syndrome with Shen-yin deficiency syndrome and phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome (P<0.05) as well as when compared Ganstagnancy transformed heat syndrome with Shen-yin deficiency syndrome and phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome (P<0.05). Significant difference was shown in the conception rate between Shen-yang deficiency syndrome and phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome (P<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The effects of ovulation induction in patients of phlegm-dampness accumulation syndrome and of Shen-yin deficiency syndrome were poorer than those in patients of Shen-yang deficiency syndrome and Gan-stagnancy transformed heat syndrome, which indicated the reproduction endocrine abnormality or the metabolism abnormality degree of the former two syndrome types were more server than the latter two syndrome types.
authors.affiliation: First Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou 310006. taijinv@163.com
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Xing-er
authors.initials: XE
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010062:Ovulation Induction / Q000379:methods*; D011085:Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D016711:Yang Deficiency; D016710:Yin Deficiency; D055815:Young Adult