[Clinical observation on treatment of complications with Chinese medicine according to syndrome differentiation of post-bone marrow transplantation in 22 patients with leukemia].

OBJECTIVE

To investigate the results of treatment of complications with TCM after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in leukemic patients.

METHODS

Chinese herbal medicine was taken orally according to Syndrome Differentiation.

RESULTS

Ten patients with long term fever (9 patients with unknown causes, 1 case with lung infection) were cured, who were irresponsive to the combinationn of multi-antibiotics. Out of 3 patients with severe jaundice, it was cured in 1 case with hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), and improved after treatment of TCM and deteriorated secondary to severe infection in the other 2 cases with graft-versus gastro-intestinal side effects induced by high-dose radio-/chemotherapy, it was cured in 6 cases, improved in 2 cases and no response in 1 patient.

CONCLUSIONS

TCM was showed to be effective in treating the complications post-BMT in patients with leukemia, and could accelerate the recovery of patients.