Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with a history of lung disease including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer and pneumonia, and a history of thoracic surgery, might have an increased post-acupuncture risk of pneumothorax. This information may possibly help physicians avoid post-acupuncture pneumothorax.
PMID: 31433202 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lin SK, Liu JM, Hsu RJ, Chuang HC, Wang YX, Lin PH Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research
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