SHAO Jie,CUI Guangwei,RONG Jingfeng,et al.Immediate clinical effect of acupuncture at Ximen on the coronary slow flow phenomenon[J].Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,56(1):63-66.
SHAO Jie,CUI Guangwei,RONG Jingfeng,et al.Immediate clinical effect of acupuncture at Ximen on the coronary slow flow phenomenon[J].Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,56(1):63-66. DOI: 10.16305/j.1007-1334.2022.2106079.
Immediate clinical effect of acupuncture at Ximen on the coronary slow flow phenomenon
Objective,2,To observe the immediate effect of acupuncture at Ximen (PC 4) on coronary flow velocity in patients with coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP).,Methods,2,Seventy patients with CSFP were enrolled as study subjects and randomly divided into a test group (acupuncture at Ximen acupoint) and a control group (acupuncture at sham acupoints), with 35 cases in each group. The changes in the corrected Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) frame count (CTFC) values under use of coronary angiography and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptom scores were observed and compared before and after acupuncture between the two groups, and safety evaluation was also performed.,Results,2,①The intragroup comparison showed that after acupuncture the CTFC values in the test group decreased (,P,<,0.05) while the difference of CTFC values in the control group was not statistically significant (,P,>0.05). After acupuncture, the difference of CTFC values in the test group was higher than that in the control group (,P,<,0.05). ②After acupuncture, the TCM symptom scores of patients in both groups were lowered (,P,<,0.05); the difference of TCM symptom scores in the test group was higher than that in the control group (,P,<,0.05). ③No significant adverse reaction was observed in both groups.,Conclusion,2,Acupuncture helps to reduce subjective symptoms in patients with CSFP; compared with sham acupuncture, acupuncture at Ximen (PC 4) accelerates coronary blood flow and better improves clinical discomfort in patients with CSFP.
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