[Symptoms complex of traditional Chinese medicine in patients with congestive heart failure]

This paper have carried out clinical study on 65 cases of congestive heart failure (CHF). (1) The insufficiency of Heart-Qi was the main cause of invasion of CHF. Along with aggravation of CHF, the Heart Yin deficiency developed into the Heart Yang deficiency and accompanying symptoms multiplied gradually. (2) Except plasma aldosterone (pALD) (P greater than 0.05), the levels of plasma atrial natriuretic polypeptide (pANP) and plasma angiotensin II (pAII) in the Heart Yin deficiency group was increased obviously compared with healthy persons (P less than 0.05-0.001). In the Heart Yang deficiency group, the levels of pANP and pALD was increased markedly (P less than 0.05-0.005), the level of pAII was decreased obviously (P less than 0.05), as compared with the Heart Yin deficiency group. (3) There were positive correlations between pANP and pALD (P less than 0.005), negative correlations between pAII and pANP, pALD (P less than 0.001).