Clinical Evaluation of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine in Treating SARS

Objective:To evaluate the effective treatment with integrative Chinese and western medi-cine(ICWM)of severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS).Methods:The 65 cases of SARS patientswere treated with ICWM and 37 cases with western medicine(WM)alone as the control in our hospitalfrom March 11 to April 30,2003.The results were analyzed,with T subset profile tested for all the 102patients.Results:Sixty-five cases of SARS patients treated with ICWM included 52 mild cases of whom 51cases were cured(98.1％)and no patient died.As to the 13 severe cases in this group,9 were cured(69.2％)and 2 died(15.4％).Of the 37 cases treated with WM alone,16 out of the 18 common cases werecured(88.9％)and 10 out of the 19 severe cases were cured(52.6％),with the other 9 died(47.4％).Comparison between the two groups(P=0.061)showed the difference was close to the value for statisti-cal significance.But considering that the number of samples was small,more cases are needed fot furtherstudy.The immune function examination:in cases