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Central effect of acupuncture at Yanglingquan based on acupoint specificity on food picture stimulation paradigm with gallstone disease: a randomized controlled trial.

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
gallstone disease
Registration Number
ITMCTR2000003453
Lead Sponsor
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

1. Meet the diagnostic criteria for gallstone disease set by the EASL in 2016;
2. Aged between 18 and 60 years and right-handed;
3. have not taken any cholagogic drugs within 1 month;
4. not participating in any other clinical trials in the past three months;
5. having signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

1. calculus in bile duct;
2. acute cholecystitis, acute suppurative, gangrenous, incarcerated cholecystitis and perforation of gallbladder with diffuse peritonitis, etc.;
3. with serious complications or primary diseases such as cardiovascular, liver, kidney, endocrine and hematopoietic system;
4. with severe digestive system diseases, such as peptic ulcer, upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, gastric tumor, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, etc;
5. WBC > 12*10^9/L with systemic inflammatory response;
6. having a history of corticosteroid treatment in the past month;
7. having a history of anti-infective drug therapy (excluding cephalosporins) in the past month;
8. with high anxiety and depression (SAS >= 70 or SDS >= 72) and those with mental illness;
9. with obvious headache, migraine, head injury history and obvious pain in other parts;
10. women being in pregnancy or lactation; or
11. having contraindications of MRI scans such as claustrophobia or implanted ferromagnetic metal;
12. with head space occupying disease.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
task fMRI data;
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
appetite test;Numeric Rating Scale;
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