[Randomized controlled study of integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine on AIDS with pulmonary inflammation patients].
OBJECTIVE
To compare effects of integrated treatment traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine (TCM-WM) and simple western medicine on TCM clincal symptoms in the patient of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation.


METHODS
A multicenter randomized controlled trials of 164 subjects evaluated the effects of clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation of TWO regimens: the TCM-WM group (n = 111) and western medicine treatment group (n = 53), while incidence of TCM symptoms in different time points in two groups were analyzed.


RESULTS
Twenty eight days after treatment, the cured and markedly effective rate of TCM symptoms in the TCM-WM group significantly exceeding that in the western medicine treatment group (cured and markedly effective rate significant efficiency 44.55% vs 20.00%), while the incidence rate for the TCM symptoms of fever and headache in the TCM-WM group was significantly lower than that in western medicine group.


CONCLUSIONS
The integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine helps to alleviate the TCM clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation.
Guangzhou No. 8th People's Hospital, Guangzhou 510060, China. evencen@163.com
Yu-Wen
YW
Cen
Xing-Hua
XH
Tan
Jian-Sheng
JS
Zhang
Gui-Qin
GQ
Zhou
Gang
G
Wan
Li-Ran
LR
Xu
Bing
B
Qu
Li-Jun
LJ
Sun
Zhi-Hao
ZH
Meng
Zhi-Hai
ZH
Chen
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome