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RE: Hemopericardium Following Acupuncture?
• The authors have no financial conflicts of interest. which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1 reported a case of hemopericardium following acupuncture by an unauthorized acupuncturist. This report documents the case of a female patient who had a thoracostomy and was transferred to the emergency...
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Acupuncture is an alternative medicine procedure that in recent years has achieved immense popularity with the public.1,2 Several authors have voiced concerns, however, about the lack of regulations for acupuncture and the possibility of serious complications following the procedure.3-6 We hereby report a case of unilateral pneumothorax occurring as a complication of acupuncture treatment.
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We report a case of 62-year-old man with cardiac tamponade due to coronary artery injury after acupuncture into the substernum. After resuscitation of cardiac arrest, we performed emergent pericardiocentesis. Nevertheless, the cardiac arrest recurred, and the emergent operation on cardiopulmonary bypass was performed. We identified hemopericardium due to shredded acute marginal branch of right ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Yonsei Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0513-5796
DOI: 10.3349/ymj.2011.52.1.207