HUANG Chunhua, LIU Liting, RAO Wangfu. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Myasthenia Gravis: A Reevaluation on Systematic Review/Meta-analysis[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2019, 60(15): 1294-1298.
HUANG Chunhua, LIU Liting, RAO Wangfu. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Myasthenia Gravis: A Reevaluation on Systematic Review/Meta-analysis[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2019, 60(15): 1294-1298.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2019.15.008.
Objective To conduct a reevaluation study on systematic review/Meta-analysis of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) treatment of myasthenia gravis(MG)
in order to evaluate the bias and the reliability of the conclusion. Methods We comprehensively searched China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)
VIP database
WanFang database
Chinese Biology Medicine(CBM)
PubMed
Embase
The Cochrane Library for literature on systematic review/Meta-analysis of TCM treatment of MG from the establishment time of databases to September 30 th
2018. The literature were evaluated in terms of methodological quality evaluation
outcome index evidence quality grading. Descriptive analysis was conducted to primary outcome index. Results A total of 7 SRs/Meta-analysis were included with 28 outcomes index. 6 papers compared the efficacy of TCM combined with western medicine between western medicine alone in treating MG. One systematic review compared the efficacy of TCM alone and western medicine alone. The AMSTAR scale score showed that there were 3 papers with a total score of 11-16
which was of medium quality. 4 papers with a total score was between 17 and 22 points
which was of high quality. GRADE grading results showed that evidences of 23 outcome index were of low or extremely low quality
and only 5 outcomes were of intermediate quality
mainly reflected in the recurrence rate
TCM syndrome scores
adverse reactions. Descriptive analysis showed that TCM treatment of MG can improve the total effective rate
reduce the clinical absolute score
clinical relative score
reduce the recurrence rate
the incidence of adverse reactions(P < 0. 05 or P < 0. 01).Conclusion The systematic review/Meta-analysis of methodological quality of TCM treatment of MG is medium to high
but the evidence strength of the conclusion is low. The available evidence indicates that TCM combined with western medicine may have synergistic effects in the treatment of MG.