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cord-259731-kiccsa89	Chen, Wei-Chieh	Adjuvant therapy with traditional Chinese medicine in a heart failure patient complicated by hospital-acquired pneumonia: A case report	2019-02-27		.txt	text/plain	1936	113	42	title: Adjuvant therapy with traditional Chinese medicine in a heart failure patient complicated by hospital-acquired pneumonia: A case report OBJECTIVE: We report a case of congestive heart failure complicated by hospital-acquired pneumonia that was successfully treated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and antibiotics. Broad spectrum antibiotics did not relieve the fever or the purulent sputum; therefore, the patient requested TCM for integrated therapy, and was subsequently treated with a regiment of "clearing heat and damp excreting" decoction according to TCM theory. CONCLUSION: Integrated therapy with a "clearing heat and damp excreting" decoction may have improved hospital-acquired pneumonia in a patient comorbid with congestive heart failure. We report a HAP patient comorbid with CHF who experienced rapid and significant improvement in symptoms and image findings following treatment with TCM adjuvant therapy. Because the bacterial cultures from sputum and blood were all negative, we believe that the antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and antitussive effects of the TCM regiment acted against the persistent inflammation in this patient.	./cache/cord-259731-kiccsa89.txt	./txt/cord-259731-kiccsa89.txt