Can Combination Therapy of Conventional and Oriental Medicine Improve Poststroke Aphasia? Comparative, Observational, Pragmatic Study

Table 3

Type of stroke.

	COT group; (𝑛=47)	OLT group; (𝑛=30)	𝑃 value
Infarction : hemorrhage	30 : 17	14 : 16
Infarction
LAA (%)	26 (55.32)	10 (33.33)	0.670
CE (%)	2 (4.26)	1 (3.33)	1.000
SAO (%)	0 (0)	1 (3.33)	0.390
Other causes (%)	1 (2.13)	1 (3.33)	1.000
Undetermined causes (%)	1 (2.13)	0 (0)	1.000
Hemorrhage
ICH (%)	13 (27.66)	13 (43.33)	0.217
IVH (%)	1 (2.13)	0 (0)	1.000
SDH (%)	0 (0)	2 (6.67)	0.149
SAH (%)	3 (6.39)	1 (3.33)	1.000

COT group: group that received language therapy with oriental medicine therapy.
OLT group: group that received language therapy only.
LAA: large artery atherosclerosis. CE: cardioembolism.
SAO: small artery occlusion. ICH: intracerebral hemorrhage.
IVH: intraventricular hemorrhage. SDH: subdural hemorrhage.
SAH: subarachnoid hemorrhage.
𝑃 value was obtained by Fisher’s exact test.