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Lung CT Segmentation to Identify Consolidations and Ground Glass Areas for Quantitative Assesment of SARS-CoV Pneumonia
Published on: December 19, 2020
[Dynamic analysis of TCM syndrome in 63 patients of SARS]
Xiu-hui Li1, Jian-hua Hu, Yu Yang
1Beijing You'an Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100054. lixiuhui@sohu.com
Objective:
To observe the dynamic characteristics of symptoms and tongue figure in SARS patients, and the relationship between them and laboratory indexes.
Methods:
The dynamic changes of 63 patients, who were hospitalized in authors' hospital from March 11 to April 30, 2003, were observed.
Results:
The symptoms mostly often revealed in patients of early stage were fever in 56 patients, cough in 41 and weakness or heaviness of limbs in 40, which in patients of middle or crisis stage were cough in 53 and weakness or heaviness of limbs in 43. The clinical symptoms in patients of recovery stage were atypical, they occasionally manifested as limb weakness or heaviness in 17, chest stuffiness or pain in 13, low fever in 11, cough in 12 and expectoration in 11. In the early stage, patients' tongue was pink or red in tongue tip, with thin-white, white-greasy or yellow-greasy coating; in middle stage, tongue in most patients were red, with white-greasy or yellow-thick-greasy coating; in recovery stage, tongues of patients were mostly pink or red in tongue tip, few were dark purple, with thin-white or white-greasy, occasionally yellow-greasy coating.
Conclusion:
TCM syndrome of SARS patients has its characteristics and regularity of changes, which was in accordance with the laboratory findings.
