A Primary Study On The Basic TCM Syndroms Of Acute Exacerbations Of COPD

BackgroundCOPD is the common diseases of older persons. With the extended life expectancy and the ageing of the population trends are significant, COPD has gradually become the important public health issue which afflicts many doctors and patients because of its characteristics of high morbidity, relapse rate, mortality rate, and its treatment difficulty, heavy socio-economic burden, e. t.c. So far there have been no effective and specificit treatments of Western medicine for the disease. While there are exceptional advantages of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatments for COPD, which is named "lung-distention" by TCM. But the integrated efficacy of TCM treatments for COPD has been not recognized, and its further studies are constrained. The reason is that the macro, holistic and visualization of TCM diagnosis and treatment methods lead to a certain subjectivity and ambiguity of syndromes diagnosis establishment, which result in the lack of accepted and objective differential diagnosis standards. Therefore it is important to explore syndromes distribution and dynamic evolution laws of Acute Exacerbations of COPD, and establish uniform, standardized, quantitative, objective standard, which can provide clinical basis for Selection of treatment based on the differential diagnosis. ObjectiveUsing clinical epidemiological methods to count up and analyze syndromes distribution of Acute Exacerbations of COPD, and explore objective, dynamic and acceptive differential diagnosis standards and classification standards, which can provide both clinical basis for Selection of treatment based on the differential diagnosis and canonical primary standards for TCM sub-type quantification diagnosis and efficacy evaluation.