[Clinical observation on treatment of complications with Chinese medicine according to syndrome differentiation of post-bone marrow transplantation in 22 patients with leukemia].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the results of treatment of complications with TCM after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in leukemic patients. METHODS: Chinese herbal medicine was taken orally according to Syndrome Differentiation. RESULTS: Ten patients with long term fever (9 patients with unknown causes, 1 case with lung infection) were cured, who were irresponsive to the combinationn of multi-antibiotics. Out of 3 patients with severe jaundice, it was cured in 1 case with hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), and improved after treatment of TCM and deteriorated secondary to severe infection in the other 2 cases with graft-versus gastro-intestinal side effects induced by high-dose radio-/chemotherapy, it was cured in 6 cases, improved in 2 cases and no response in 1 patient. CONCLUSIONS: TCM was showed to be effective in treating the complications post-BMT in patients with leukemia, and could accelerate the recovery of patients.