Relationship between Injured Lung Function and Endoscopic Index in Ulcerative Colitis Patients / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

This study was aimed to find the relationship between lung function injured characteristic of ulcerative colitis (UC) and endoscopic index. It will verify and enrich Chinese medicine theory to guide clinical diagnosis and treatment. UC patients without respiratory system diseases were selected between September 2009 and March 2011 from several triple-A hospitals in China. Furthermore, disease history, lung function, colonoscopy and histopathology were taken. The results showed that among 171 enrolled cases, there were statistical differences in endoscopic index of residual-function and diffusion-function between the abnormal group and the normal group (P< 0.05). The resid-ual-function group was r = 0.003. There were no statistical differences in ventilatory-function and small-airway-function in the abnormal group. It was concluded that there were different types of injured lung function in UC. A-mong them, the abnormalities of residual-function and diffusion-function had strong correlation with the intestinal damage degree. The change on residual-function was more obvious.