[Initial exploration on the new thought for diagnosis and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus by integrative Chinese and Western medicine].

The pathological changes of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) could involve multiple organs and systems, showing a complicated and multivariate clinical features. Since the authors held that the previous clinical disease-syndrome integrative thought can not embody the regularity in the diagnosis and treatment of SLE, in order to establish a novel operable thought of syndrome differentiation which could reflect the clinical practice of SLE, they suggested, in accordance with their clinical experience, that the basis for integration of the disease and its syndromes should not be SLE itself but the clinical manifestations of the organs and systems, such as fever, nervous system injury, lupus kidney, thrombocytopenic purpura of SLE, etc. They claimed that the new clinical thought of diagnosis and treatment will contribute to conduct systematic and standard research on SLE, and the regulation of TCM therapy based on syndrome differentiation would be more closer to the clinical practice of SLE.