Aspiration pneumonia
Conditions
Interventions
Patients in active treatment group took 7.5g BHT extract each day, 3 times before meal, one year (from March 2005 to Feb. 2006). They also took all known conventional therapies including swallowing tr
Sponsors
Division of Geriatrics and Complementary medicine, Tohoku University, post graduate school of medicine
Utsunomiya-Higashi Hospital
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Elderly patients who have cerebro-vascular disorder and any conditions causeing swallowing disorder. Patient who have past history of aspiration pneumonia.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients who have chronic lung diseases, malignancies, immunodeficiency i.e. HIV infection, who has severe liver disfunction, severe renal disfunction, ischemic heart diseases, Patients who took other Chinese herbal medicines. Patients who can not take BHT per os.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Frequency of aspiration pneumonia, survival rate, amount of eating meals, whole ADL level, medical cost | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Cognition | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactKoh Iwasaki
Tohoku University, post graduate school of medicine Division of Geriatrics and Complementary medicine
Outcome results
None listed