Korean Journal of Family Medicine

"Acupuncture"

Case Reports

Pyogenic Liver Abscess Following Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatment: Eun Jung Choi, Sangyeoup Lee, Dong Wook Jeong, Young Hye Cho, Su Jin Lee, Jeong Gyu Lee, Yun Jin Kim, Yu Hyun Yi, Ji Yong Lim; Korean J Fam Med 2013;34(5):364-368. Published online September 26, 2013; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.2013.34.5.364

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Acupuncture treatment is generally regarded as a relatively safe procedure. However, most procedures have some complications and acupuncture treatment is no exception. Reported complications of acupuncture treatment were mostly mild or temporary symptoms, but certain severe adverse effects were also observed. We report here for the first time a case of liver abscess following acupuncture and moxibustion treatment.

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One Case of Tetanus after Taking Acupuncture .: In Cheol Hwang, Rae Jun Jung, Sul Hui Chee, Hee Cheol Kang; J Korean Acad Fam Med 2008;29(12):948-951. Published online December 10, 2008

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Tetanus is a neurologic disease which features the muscle spasm as the hallmark. It is an infectious disease with high mortality rate triggered by tetanospasmin produced by Clostridium tetani. This report concerns incidence of tetanus consequent to oriental medical care such as acupuncture and moxibustion. Although the tetanus occurrence has shown a remarkable decline since nationwide vaccinations in some of the developed countries, including Korea, it still remains to be an important issue, to be dealt within Korea, as the majority of the patients are old aged and Korean population is rapidly becoming an aging society. Furthermore, since more elders are coming to rely on Oriental medicine in Korea, the Korean elders are at a higher risk than elsewhere. The lack of medical experiences, including those in oriental medical field, has been hindering early diagnosis of Tetanus. This study aims to encourage rapid and accurate decisions in diagnosis and treatment through reviewing symptoms particularly specific to tetanus, and also to arouse attention to the riskiness of invasive procedures involving skin puncture. (J Korean Acad Fam Med 2008;29:948-951)

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Relationship between control measurement point (CMP) value of Electroacupucture according to Voll(EAV) and clinical laboratory findings and subjective symptoms of patients.: Eun Sook Park, Yong Chul Kim, Sekyung Oh, Dokyoung Yoon, Seon Mee Kim, Kyung Hwan Cho, Yong Kyun Roh, Jeong Yeol Oh, Hee Tak Yoo; J Korean Acad Fam Med 1998;19(9):736-744. Published online September 1, 1998

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Background
: The objective confirmation of subjective symptom of patient is important in the primary care consisted largely by functional disorders of which mechanism could not explain the symptoms clearly. Definite diagnostic method is not established yet for the functional disorders densptie the fact that various investigations have been done. So, we tried to reveal the relationship between the value of indicator drop(ID) from electroacupunctrure point accordint to Voll and the clinical diagnosis and subjective symptom by using noninvasive electroacupuncture diagnosis according to Voll.

Methods : Among the patients of three university level hospitals health care centers from April to June 1997, consenting 203 persons were enrolled .Various laboratory finding and ID from EAV were measured by double blind test methods. In parallel, subjective symptoms were classified by each organ. Validity was tested by the relationship between the gastrofiberscopy finding and the stomach control measurement point ID.

Results : There were statistically significant ID increases in the CMPs of endocrine, lung, circulation system, gastrointestinal system, kidney and bladder compared to a laboratory findings or subjective symptom by the comparison between the variables of the assessed clinical or laboratory findings and organ specific CMP score. Especially, the ID increase of stomach shows 79.3%-90.9% positive predictive value to positive findings of gastrofiberscopy when gastrofiberscopy is definded to confirmation test of gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

Conclusion : Our results show that the noninvasive electrodiagnostic method result by measuring EAV of organ system is related statistically to subjective symptoms and laboratory findings. Also they show that it could be useful tool as a clinical diagnostic method. We suggest that further study is needed to reveal organ specific sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value by using confirmation method of organ specific disease.