SARS: Clinical Trials on Treatment Using a Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
(2004; 194 pages)

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This document is published as the report of the WHO International Expert Meeting to review and analyse clinical reports on combination treatment for SARS, held in Beijing, China, October 2003.

In the winter of 2002, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) began to spread out to the world. SARS is a newly identified human infection caused by a corona virus unlike any other known human or animal virus in its family.

The major challenges for the treatment of SARS are:

The source of the SARS virus and mode of transmission are still not well understood
There are problems with diagnostic tools
There is no effective treatment, and
There is no vaccine for SARS.

The above-mentioned difficulties and challenges have motivated national authorities, health workers and scientists to explore the potential of complementary treatment.

In order to better understand the potential of complementary treatment for patient with SARS and to encourage robust clinical research on SARS and its treatment with traditional medicine, WHO convened an International Expert Meeting on Review of Treatment of SARS by Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine.

This publication is intended to:

share experience in the complementary treatment of SARS patients;
share the experience of clinical studies in the field of traditional medicine for treatment of SARS between the physicians and researchers; and
further encourage and promote the quality of research in the field of traditional medicine.
It must be emphasized that the purpose of this document is to report on some clinical studies on treatment and prevention selected by the Chinese government, and to record the review of these studies by an international meeting of experts. Only national health authorities have the right to determine what treatment for SARS can be recommended.

Table des matières

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
	Report of the International Expert Meeting to review and analyse clinical reports on combination treatment for SARS
	Report 1: Clinical research on treatment of SARS with integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western Medicine
	Report 2: Clinical efficacy of the treatment of SARS with integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine: an analysis of 524 cases
	Report 3: Manifestation of symptoms in patients with SARS and analysis of the curative effect of treatment with integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
	Report 4: Clinical study on 103 inpatients undergoing therapy with integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
	Report 5: Clinical observations of 11 patients with SARS treated with Traditional Chinese medicine
	Report 6: Effects of applying integrated therapy with Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine on liver and kidney functions in patients with SARS
	Report 7: Clinical research on 63 patients with SARS treated with integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
	Report 8: Influence of integrated therapy with Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine on lymphocytes and T-lymphocyte subpopulations of patients with SARS
	Report 9: Analysis of the clinical curative effects on patients with SARS of treatment with Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
	Report 10: Evaluation of clinical curative effects of Traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of patients convalescing from SARS
	Report A: A herbal formula for the prevention of transmission of SARS during the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - a prospective cohort study
	Report B: Effects of Chinese medicine on patients convalescing from SARS in Hong Kong special administrative region - a prospective non-randomized controlled trial
	Report C: Traditional Chinese medicine in the management of patients with SARS in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region - a case-control study of 24 patients
	Annex

SARS: Clinical Trials on Treatment Using a Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine

Report of the WHO International Expert Meeting to review and analyse clinical reports on combination treatment for SARS
8-10 October 2003
Beijing, People's Republic of China

World Health Organization
Geneva
2004

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

SARS: Clinical trials on treatment using a combination of Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine

1. Severe acute respiratory syndrome -therapy 2. Medicine, Chinese traditional 3. Clinical trials 4. Cross-cultural comparison I. Title.

ISBN 92 4 154643 3

(NLM Classification: WC 505)

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