Traditional Chinese medicine for elderly heart disease patients with ongoing symptoms
Part of Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This trial tests whether traditional Chinese medicine can help elderly patients with coronary heart disease who still have chest pain or discomfort despite standard treatments. It focuses on those who cannot have or have not fully benefited from procedures like stents or bypass surgery.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are between 75 and 89 years old.
- You have chest discomfort (angina) triggered by activity or stress, which gets better with rest or nitroglycerin, and standard Western medicine hasn't helped enough.
- You have at least two heart arteries with significant blockage (over 50%), and you either can't have or have already had partial angioplasty/stents with some blockage remaining.
- Your traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis is either qi stagnation with blood stasis or qi deficiency with blood stasis.
- You can communicate well and are willing to sign a consent form.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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