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| Observation of Acupuncture on Limb Temperature of Patients with Multiple Takayasu Arteritis by Infra-red Thermography |
| Hits 1347 Download times 1425 Received:May 27, 2002 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2002.06.17 |
| Key Words
acupuncture;multiple takayasu arteritis;infra-red thermography |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Cheng Yu | The First Affiliated Hospital to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | 石学敏 | The First Affiliated Hospital to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| Objective: To study the mechanism of acupuncture on limb temperature of patients with multiple takayasu arteritis aorto-arteritis by infra-red thermography. Method: 87 cases with this disease were treated by using acupuncture, western medicine or TCM. The temperature changes of patients were observed before and after treatment. Result: In the treatment group the increasing of patients’ limb temperature was better than that of western medicine group and TCM-WM group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). The change of temperature improved without obvious difference when compared with other two groups but clinical effect. Conclusion: Acupuncture has better effect on multiple takayasu arteritis. |
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