Advances In The Treatment Of Adult Thoracolumbar Spinal Tuberculosis

The old epidemic tuberculosis disease has became a serious public hygiene problem again. This epidemic disease which had been well-controlled in recent decades re-aggravated in nowadays by two reason: One is biology characteristic and social factors, the other is widely neglect through all countries in last 20 years.Dorsal-lumbar vertebrae tuberculosis has been common clinical extrapulmonary tuberculosis in recent years. The text has introduced some popular treatment and development trend for this disease. The dorsal-lumbar vertebrae tuberculosis treatment has been range of three part of treatment which concludes the supporting treatment, medicine treatment and surgery treatment. The supporting treatment focus on nutrition problem in the disease progress, medicine treatment focus on chemotherapy and formula treatment, and surgery treatment conclude not only western surgical operation but also Chinese external treatment.Poisonous resistance problem and side-effect problem has became difficulties to the antituberculosis drugs treatment in medicine treatment in resent years. But Chinese formula treatment not only be singly used in treatment but also just can effectively reduced serious poisonous side-effect and multiple resistance problems.The discuss in surgery treatment focus on surgical approach and internal-fixing problem. Associate professor LingYi Zeng has his own experience and special treatment for adult dorsal-lumbar vertebrae tuberculosis disease which has been shown in the end of this text. His experience just also show that adult dorsal-lumbar vertebrae tuberculosis treatment should be a integrated treatment which can received good effect by well supporting treatment and medicine treatment.The treatment principle which created by associated professor Lin are finally use treatment group and standard chemistry group as contrast group ,and the observation result shows: The antituberculosis treatment which combined Chinese herb with Western medicine not only can decrease disease development and promoting absorption of lesion, but also can ease side-effect of antituberculosis drug and improving tuberculosis symptoms and treatment effect. This kind of treatment will be future direction in the development of tuberculosis treatment of TCM.