AIMS To study the relationship between the modern clinical and pathohistological classification and TCM Syndrome-Typing of chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC). METHODS Totally 452 patients with CUC were clas- sified acco...AIMS To study the relationship between the modern clinical and pathohistological classification and TCM Syndrome-Typing of chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC). METHODS Totally 452 patients with CUC were clas- sified according to the standards of TCM Syndrome- Typing set up in the Conference of the Combination of the Chinese-Western Medicine on Digestive Diseases in Linfen. The relevant changes between both classifica- tions were analyzed and compared through the colonofiberscopic and pathohistological examination. RESULTS The type of retention of damp-heat in inte- rior is more commonly seen in the patients with initial onset of disease (P<0.01). There is no significant difference among other TCM Syndrome-Typing groups in patients with chronic persistent and recurrent disease (P>0.05). The congestion,edema,reduction of goblet cells and the infiltration of neutrophils are patho- logically common to all TCM Syndrome-Typing groups. Mucosal ulcer is dominant in damp-heat syndrome while crypt ulcer is dominant in the types of spleen-stomach asthenia and spleen-kidney Yang deficiency (P< 0.01). CONCLUSIONS There appears a certain relation- ship between the TCM syndrome typing and pathohis- tological changes of the colonal mucosa of CUC.展开更多
文摘AIMS To study the relationship between the modern clinical and pathohistological classification and TCM Syndrome-Typing of chronic ulcerative colitis (CUC). METHODS Totally 452 patients with CUC were clas- sified according to the standards of TCM Syndrome- Typing set up in the Conference of the Combination of the Chinese-Western Medicine on Digestive Diseases in Linfen. The relevant changes between both classifica- tions were analyzed and compared through the colonofiberscopic and pathohistological examination. RESULTS The type of retention of damp-heat in inte- rior is more commonly seen in the patients with initial onset of disease (P<0.01). There is no significant difference among other TCM Syndrome-Typing groups in patients with chronic persistent and recurrent disease (P>0.05). The congestion,edema,reduction of goblet cells and the infiltration of neutrophils are patho- logically common to all TCM Syndrome-Typing groups. Mucosal ulcer is dominant in damp-heat syndrome while crypt ulcer is dominant in the types of spleen-stomach asthenia and spleen-kidney Yang deficiency (P< 0.01). CONCLUSIONS There appears a certain relation- ship between the TCM syndrome typing and pathohis- tological changes of the colonal mucosa of CUC.
