ABSTRACT Objective: To systematically evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of Reduning injection (RI) combined with azithromycin in the treatment of mycoplasma pneumoniae in children, and provide scientific evidence for clinical decision. Methods:CNKI, VIP, WanFang, SinoMed, PubMed, the Cochrane Library and Embase databases were electronically searched to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of mycoplasma pneumoniae in children treated by RI from inception to September 14, 2018. Two reviewers independently screened literatures, extracted data and assessed risk of bias of included studies. Then Meta analysis was performed by RevMan 5.3 software. Results:35 RCTs involving 3 104 patients were included. The results of Meta analysis showed that: on the basis of azithromycin treatment, RI could significantly improve the total clinical efficiency compared with azithromycin alone (RR=1.17, 95%CI 1.14 to 1.21, P<0.000 01). In addition, RI combined with azithromycin could effectively shorten cough time (MD=-2.29, 95%CI -2.67 to -1.91, P<0.000 01), antipyretic tim (MD=-2.01, 95%CI -2.37 to -1.65, P<0.000 01), lung rales disappeared time (MD=-2.05, 95%CI -2.51 to -1.59, P<0.000 01), hospital stays (MD=-2.41, 95%CI -2.90 to -1.91, P<0.000 01) and nidus disappeared time in X ray (MD=-2.37, 95%CI -2.93 to -1.81, P<0.000 01). Furthermore, when compared with azithromycin alone, RI combined with azithromycin could reduce the level of C reactive protein (SMD=-5.23, 95%CI -7.13 to -3.34, P<0.000 01) and interleukin 6 (SMD=-3.49, 95%CI -5.26 to -1.72, P=0.000 1). In the 35 included studies, 16 studies reported 123 cases of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), and two articles cleared that there was no ADRs in the studies. The rest studies didn’t mention ADRs. Conclusion:The current evidence indicates that RI combineed with azithromycin in the treatment of mycoplasma pneumoniae in children was superior to azithromycin alone in improving the clinical total efficiency and clinical indicators. Adverse drug reaction was consistent with RI’s instruction and related research descriptions. However, the safety of RI required more high quality research to support. |