Clinical Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Suppository Combined with Yishen Tongluo Qingkang Decoction in Treatment of Immune Infertility / 中国实验方剂学杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） suppository combined with Yishen Tongluo Qingkang decoction in the treatment of immune infertility. MethodA total of 116 patients meeting the inclusion criteria of this study were randomly divided into an observation group （58 cases） and a control group （58 cases）. The observation group was treated with TCM suppository combined with Yishen Tongluo Qingkang decoction，and the control group was treated with prednisone acetate tablets. Both groups were treated for 12 weeks and followed up six months after treatment. Semen samples of the patients were collected before and after treatment，and the pregnancy status of their spouses，negative conversion rate of seminal plasma anti-sperm antibody （AsAb），sperm concentration，motility，percentage of forward motile sperm，sperm acrosin activity， and incidence of adverse reactions were compared between the two groups. ResultA total of 104 patients completed the study，including 53 cases in the observation group and 51 cases in the control group. Before treatment，the baseline data of the two groups were balanced. After treatment，the total effective rate of the observation group was 92.45%，which was higher than that of the control group （76.47%）（P<0.05），and the negative conversion rate of AsAb in the observation group was higher than that in the control group，but the difference was not statistically significant. After treatment，the sperm motility， percentage of forward motile sperm， and sperm acrosin activity increased in the two groups（P<0.05），and the sperm concentration in the observation group increased （P<0.05）. There was no significant difference in sperm concentration in the control group. After treatment，the sperm concentration，motility，percentage of forward motile sperm， and acrosin activity in the observation group were better than those in the control group （P<0.05）. During the trial，the incidence of adverse reactions in the observation group was lower than that in the control group （P<0.05）. ConclusionTCM suppository combined with Yishen Tongluo Qingkang decoction can significantly increase the negative conversion rate of AsAb and improve the quality of semen in patients with immune infertility.