Study on traditional Chinese medicine syndrome of 260 patients with bronchiectasis
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This study aimed to explore the distribution characteristics and patterns of syndrome elements and syndromes in patients with bronchiectasis. We collected data from a total of 260 outpatient and inpatient patients with bronchiectasis at Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from May 2020 to January 2022 were collected to analyze the distribution of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome elements and clinical data, as well as the differences in clinical staging, number of acute exacerbations in the past year, body mass index (BMI), and microbial colonization among different syndromes. The results indicate that the main focus of the disease in the population was on the lungs in 257 cases (98.85%), followed by the kidneys (16.54%), heart (7.69%), spleen (7.31%), and liver (7.31%); The highest frequency of phlegm occurrence in pathological syndrome elements is 152 cases (58.46%), followed by Yin deficiency (45.77%), Qi deficiency (41.15%), and fire (22.69%). In the combination of syndrome elements, the combination of lung and qi deficiency is the most common, with a total of 39 cases (15.00%). In the distribution of syndrome types, empirical syndrome accounts for 90 cases (34.62%), deficiency syndrome accounts for 100 cases (38%), and a mixture of deficiency and excess accounts for 79 cases (27%). Among the 260 cases, 90 cases (34.62%) were excess pattern, 100 cases (38.46%) were deficiency pattern, and 70 cases (26.92%) were deficiency-excess complex. The most common TCM syndrome types were phlegm-heat and lung deficiency 53 cases (20.38%), lung qi deficiency pattern 34 cases (13.08%), and lung qi and yin deficiency pattern 32 cases (12.31%). In conclusion, patients with bronchiectasis have a wide distribution of syndrome elements, and their syndrome types are mixed with deficiency and excess, with significant differences in clinical characteristics compared to patients with different syndrome types.
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