Progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research on Postoperative Non-obstructive Urinary Retention in Malignant Tumors

Abstract

Surgery is the main way of early treatment of malignant tumors, but patients will have many adverse reactions and complications after surgery, and urinary retention is one of the common postoperative complications of malignant tumors, which brings great challenges to patients' postoperative recovery. Western medicine has a single treatment for this complication, and there is a risk of postoperative infection. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment can be based on the four diagnostics, identification and treatment of patients with personalized treatment, which has been clinically shown to have a better therapeutic effect and no toxic side effects. TCM classifies this disease as “Longbi”, and believes that its causes include external factors - wind, cold, dryness, etc, and internal factors - dietary disorders, emotional fluctuations, phlegm and drink, it is believed that the causes of illness include external factors such as wind, cold and dryness, and internal factors such as dietary disorders, emotional fluctuations, phlegm and blood stasis. The pathogenesis is analyzed from two dimensions: deficiency and reality. TCM treatments are divided into internal treatments as well as external treatments-acupuncture, moxibustion, tuina, and acupoint plasters. In this article, we reviewed the recent literature at home and abroad to review the etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of postoperative non-obstructive urinary retention of malignant tumors in TCM, with a view to providing clinical references.