[Analysis on clinical features and treatment of herpes zoster patients hospitalized in real world]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2014 Sep;39(18):3469-73.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

From the hospital information system (HIS) of 20 national grade III-A general hospitals, 2 960 cases of herpes zoster as the research object, analyzes the relations between the general information, syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), western medicine combined diseases, the relationship between the solar term and the incidence of herpes zoster, and the combined use of Chinese and western medicine. Among the patients with 46-65 year old has the highest percentage of diseased; admission to general outpatient clinic is the most; the most common medical payment is medicare; combined disease such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease is more common; early treatment effect of herpes zoster is better than the sequelae; summer and autumn solar term patients is hospitalized more, TCM syndrome is damp heat of liver fire; about drugs, western medicine is the most commonly used vitamin B1 and mecobalamin, traditional Chinese medicine is the most frequently used Danhong injection, combination therapy with promoting blood circulation drugs and neurotrophic drugs. Thus, herpes zoster, more common in elderly patients, with no obvious relationship between solar term, should be early diagnosis and early treatment, often with combination of Chinese traditional and western medicine treatment.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Herpes Zoster / diagnosis*
  • Herpes Zoster / drug therapy*
  • Herpes Zoster / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional / methods*
  • Middle Aged
  • Thiamine / therapeutic use
  • Vitamin B 12 / analogs & derivatives
  • Vitamin B 12 / therapeutic use
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Drugs, Chinese Herbal
  • danhong
  • mecobalamin
  • Vitamin B 12
  • Thiamine