BAO Tingting,LI Xiuyang,WANG Fan,et al.Treatment of Critical COVID-19 Case Complicated with Multiple Organ Dysfunction based on “Cold-dampness Entering Ying (营)” Theory: A Case Report[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(23):2461-2465.
BAO Tingting,LI Xiuyang,WANG Fan,et al.Treatment of Critical COVID-19 Case Complicated with Multiple Organ Dysfunction based on “Cold-dampness Entering Ying (营)” Theory: A Case Report[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(23):2461-2465.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2023.23.015.
Treatment of Critical COVID-19 Case Complicated with Multiple Organ Dysfunction based on “Cold-dampness Entering Ying (营)” Theory: A Case Report增强出版
(营)” is the key to the worsening of cold-dampness epidemic, and is more common in the elderly or critically ill cases of cold-dampness epidemic with pathogen exuberance and healthy
qi
deficiency. This paper reported a case of critically ill COVID-19 combined with multiple organ dysfunction treated by integrative traditional Chinese and western medicine based on “cold-dampness entering
ying
” theory. The patient did not have high fever after being infected with SARS-Cov-2, but D-dimer continued to increase, and she developed multiple thrombosis throughout the body and multiple organ dysfunctions such as pulmonary embolism, edema, oliguria, and shock. The patient were with enlarged and dusky tongue, with yellow, thick and greasy coating, and sublingual blood stasis, and thready, rapid and rough pulse. All these were characteristic manifestations of “cold-dampness entering
ying
”, and was differentiated as cold-dampness stasis. For the treatment, symptomatic and supportive western medicine of improving heart function, anti-infection, relieving asthma, stopping cough and reducing phlegm was given as the basic therapy, and additionally, traditional Chinese medicine to open the constraint and the blocked, save from collapse and restore yang, boost
qi
and relieve collapse, invigorate blood and drain water was used, usually with Modified
Poge Zilong Xuanbai Chengqi Decoction
(破格子龙宣白承气汤加减), which was in accordance with the pathogenesis and thus achieving good effect.
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