دورية أكاديمية

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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العنوان: Pilot quasi-randomized controlled study of herbal medicine Hochuekkito as an adjunct to conventional treatment for progressed pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease.
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
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0104411