China News, Lanzhou, March 24 (Reporter Yang Na) Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently completed the first hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and Chinese medicine gave full play to its advantages to “escort” the whole process . Shen Xiaohui, director of the Department of Hematology at the hospital, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com on the 24th that this was the first transplant carried out by a traditional Chinese medicine hospital in the northwest region, and traditional Chinese medicine played an important role.
It is understood that the patient, Ms. Yang, was diagnosed with “primary central system diffuse large B-cell lymphoma” in 2020, and was relieved after regular chemotherapy. He and his family decided to undergo autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Shen Xiaohui said that the technical means of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been very mature and perfect in the whole medical field. For relapsed and refractory malignant hematopoietic diseases of the hematopoietic system, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the most advanced development to the end. Good treatment can effectively improve the survival of patients.
The picture shows the medical staff nursing patients in the hematopoietic stem cell transplant chamber. Wang Lishe
“The transplant we carried out this time fills the gap in the technical business of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in Northwest China.” Shen Xiaohui believes that although traditional Chinese medicine cannot directly cure malignant tumors caused by gene mutations, But Chinese medicine will definitely play an important role in the treatment process.
After receiving the patient, Shen Xiaohui repeatedly organized the medical staff in the department to learn relevant knowledge, and formulated a mobilization, collection and infusion plan after repeated discussions with external experts. During the preparation and post-transplant recovery process, Shen Xiaohui and her colleagues discussed many times to use traditional Chinese medicine decoction to “escort” the entire transplant.
“Before transplantation, when the patient is pretreated with chemotherapy, the immunity is low, and a series of symptoms such as fatigue and agranulocytosis will occur.” Shen Xiaohui said that these clinical reactions are often not achieved by western medicine treatment. It has a very good effect. By providing the patient with some traditional Chinese medicine decoctions that strengthen the spleen, qi and blood, it will help her maintain a certain immune function and prepare for the follow-up transplantation.
As for post-transplantation recovery, after the patient’s blood cells are implanted and the immune function reconstruction lags behind, adding traditional Chinese medicine adjuvant therapy with the effect of strengthening the righteousness and anti-evil for the patient can help the patient to better regulate the immunity, Promote the reconstruction of the patient’s own immune system as soon as possible.
The picture shows the patient walking out of the transplant chamber after successful transplantation. Photo by Ma Zhiqiang
Choose to come to the traditional Chinese medicine hospital to receive hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Mr. Shi, the patient’s family member, admitted that adding traditional Chinese medicine treatment has greatly alleviated the patient’s pain after transplantation, made the recovery process faster, and increased their speed. Confidence in recovery.
“In addition to the high requirements for hospital equipment and modern medical foundations to carry out such transplants in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, it also poses great challenges to medical staff’s traditional Chinese medicine basis and clinical experience.” Gansu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Dean Zhang Zhiming said that Chinese medicine is just empty talk of development without combining modern science, technology and methods.
The first hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was carried out in a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, which Zhang Zhiming believes is a good start. On the basis of making full use of the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, combining modern scientific and technological means, and giving full play to the advantages of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine to diagnose and treat difficult and complex diseases, the development of traditional Chinese medicine will find new paths and methods. (End)