Aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia in progressive supranuclear palsy

نویسندگان

  • Ichiro Nozaki
  • Yuko Kato-Motozaki
  • Kazuya Takahashi
  • Atsuro Tagami
  • Chiho Ishida
  • Kiyonobu Komai
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Introduction Qing fei tang, which is used for various respiratory diseases, is useful for reducing relapse of aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia in stroke, but the effect remains unknown in Parkinsonian’s syndrome. We report two cases of Japanese patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and relapsing aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia, which was successfully prevented by qing fei tang.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015