Abstract:
Objective To investigate the effect of four traditional Chinese drugs for reinforcing kidney combined with Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction on serum neurotransmitters and neurological function in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI).
Methods A total of 110 patients with PSCI were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, with 55 cases in each group. The control group was treated with donepezil tablet, while the treatment group was treated with four traditional Chinese drugs for reinforcing kidney and Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction on the basis of the control group. The total effective rate, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score, the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score and the Barthel Index (BI) as well as serum levels of acetylcholine (ACh), dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP-1), myelin basic protein (MBP), and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) before and after treatment were compared between the two groups. Adverse reactions in both groups were recorded.
Results The total effective rate was 90.91% in the treatment group, which was significantly higher than 76.36% in the control group (P < 0.05). After treatment, the MMSE score, MoCA score and BI as well as serum levels of ACh, DA, NE, 5-HT and HSP70 in the treatment group were significantly higher than those in the control group, while the NIHSS score and serum levels of NSE, VILIP-1 and MBP were significantly lower than those in the control group (P < 0.05). The total incidence rate of adverse reactions in the treatment group and the control group was 12.73% and 9.09% respectively, which showed no significant between-group difference (P>0.05).
Conclusion Four traditional Chinese drugs for reinforcing kidney combined with Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction can promote the secretion of cognition-related neurotransmitters in patients with PSCI, accelerate the repair of neurological damage, and safety is relatively high.