The safety of withholding hydrocortisone during preoperative periods in pituitary adenomas patients with an intact HPA axis: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Objectives: For patients with pituitary adenomas with an intact hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis before surgery, whether routine steroid therapy is needed is still controversial. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the safety of withholding hydrocortisone compared with hydrocortisone in pituitary adenoma patients during preoperative periods.

Material And Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases up to November 2022 using inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Efficacy of integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and anti-retroviral therapy on immunological nonresponse in patients with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To explore the efficacy of integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and anti-retroviral therapy (ART), a customized combination of different classes of medications which was also called cock-tail treatment, on the immunological nonresponse (INR) in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH).

Methods: Relevant literature in databases such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI), Wanfang Digital Journal, Chinese Medical Journal Database (CMJD), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), PubMed, Cochrane, and Embase was reviewed by two independent investigators. Data were extracted from the studies according to the eligible criteria and analyzed using Review Manager 5.

Effectiveness and Safety Evaluation of Chinese Medicine in Treatment of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer after Chemotherapy Failure: Protocol of a Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study.

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths and has the third highest incidence in the world. Almost half of the patients with CRC have metastases at the time of diagnosis. However, the treatment for patients with metastatic CRC that progresses after approved conventional chemotherapy is still controversial.

An 84-month observational study of the changes in CD4 T-lymphocyte cell count of 110 HIV/AIDS patients treated with traditional Chinese medicine.

This study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by observing the changes in CD4 T-lymphocyte cell count of 110 cases with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) treated continuously with TCM for 84 months. Information of 110 HIV/AIDS patients from 19 provinces and cities treated with TCM from 2004 to 2013 was collected. Changes in the indexes of CD4 counts ( ≤ 200, 201-350, 351-500 and > 500 cells/mm(3)) at five time points (0, 12, 36, 60 and 84 months) and different treatments [TCM and TCM plus antiretroviral therapy (ART)] were compared.

[Study on the four-year retention rate and influencing factors for 2,353 AIDS patients by Chinese medicine].

Objective: To analyze the retention rate and its influencing factors of HIV/AIDS patients by Chinese medicine (CM) maintenance treatment in the first 5 provinces in China.

Methods: Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze the retention rate of treatment in patients. Cox hazard regression model was used to assess factors that might influence the treatment time of Chinese medication.

[Study of Tripterygium hypoglaucum Hutch and Celastrus orbiculatus thunb by FTIR spectrum].

The FTIR spectra of Tripterygium hypoglaucum Hutch (THH) and Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb were studied. The result shows that the two herbs have different ratio of main substance calcium oxalate and dulcitol, so their absorption frequency and form are different as well. In addition, there is an obvious difference between Celastrus orbiculatus stem and root, and both the peak forms of calcium oxalate and dulcitol in the FTIR spectra of roots are sharper and stronger than those of stems.

Cohort study on the effect of a combined treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine on the relapse and metastasis of 222 patients with stage II and III colorectal cancer after radical operation.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive therapy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in reducing the relapse and metastasis of stage II and III colorectal cancer based on conventional Western medicine (WM) therapy.

Methods: Two hundred and twenty-two patients in total, diagnosed as stage II and III colorectal cancer from February 2000 to March 2006, were recruited from Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and the General Hospital of Beijing Military Area. They were followed-up once every 3-6 months.