Clinical effect of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of oligozoospermia/asthenozoospermia: a meta-analysis

• Published in: Zhēncì yánjiū Vol. 45; no. 3; p. 243
• Main Authors: Yang, Bin, Meng, Qing Yu, Chen, Hao, Gao, You Ling, Shen, Jie, Mu, Yan Yun, Xia, You Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 25.03.2020
• Subjects: Acupuncture Therapy; Asthenozoospermia - therapy; Humans; Male; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Oligospermia - therapy; Sperm Motility; Meta­analysisa; Acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine; Oligozoospermia; Asthenozoospermia
• ISSN: 1000-0607
• DOI: 10.13702/j.1000-0607.190198

To evaluate the clinical effect of acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine in the treatment of oligozoospermia/asthenozoospermia. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of oligozoospermia/asthenozoospermia published up to February 15, 2019 were searched from databases of CNKI, CBM, Wanfang Data, VIP, PubMed, Embase, and The Cochrane Library. Two reviewers independently performed quality assessment and data extraction of the studies, and RevMan5.3 was used to perform the meta-analysis. A total of 13 articles with 12 RCTs were included, with a total of 1 183 patients. The meta-analysis showed that acupuncture combined with TCM achieved a significantly higher pregnancy rate than TCM alone in the treatment of oligozoospermia/asthenozoospermia(risk ratio [ ] ＝1.46, 95% confidence interval [ ]: 1.13－1.90， ＝0.004). The patients treated with acupuncture combined with TCM had a significantly higher effective rate than those treated with T