دورية أكاديمية
Pilot quasi-randomized controlled study of herbal medicine Hochuekkito as an adjunct to conventional treatment for progressed pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease.
العنوان: | Pilot quasi-randomized controlled study of herbal medicine Hochuekkito as an adjunct to conventional treatment for progressed pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease. |
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المؤلفون: | Yasunori Enomoto, Eri Hagiwara, Shigeru Komatsu, Ryuichi Nishihira, Tomohisa Baba, Hideya Kitamura, Akimasa Sekine, Atsuhito Nakazawa, Takashi Ogura |
المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 8, p e104411 (2014) |
بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014. |
سنة النشر: | 2014 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
الوصف: | Hochuekkito, a traditional herbal medicine, is occasionally prescribed in Japan to treat patients with a poor general condition. We aimed to examine whether this medicine was beneficial and tolerable for patients with progressed pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease.This pilot open-label quasi-randomized controlled trial enrolled 18 patients with progressed pulmonary MAC disease who had initiated antimycobacterial treatment over one year ago but were persistently culture-positive or intolerant. All patients continued their baseline treatment regimens with (n = 9) or without (n = 9) oral Hochuekkito for 24 weeks.Baseline characteristics were generally similar between the groups. Most patients were elderly (median age 70 years), female, had a low body mass index ( |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
العلاقة: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4122490?pdf=renderTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Test |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0104411 |
الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/7ec182e842e04936b99894ca32df0010Test |
رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.7ec182e842e04936b99894ca32df0010 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 19326203 |
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DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0104411 |