Clinical Observation of Senile Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome Treated with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

摘要

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine (TCM-WM) in treating senile idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (SINS). Methods: Eighty-two patients of SINS were randomly divided into two groups. The 41 patients in the TCM-WM group were treated with prednisone, Cytoxan (CTX) and Chinese medicinal herbs according to Syndrome-type, and the 41 patients in the control Group were treated with western medicine alone.