Life-threatening cardiac tamponade: a rare complication of acupuncture

Acupuncture as an ancient Chinese treatment has proven effective and is utilized worldwide. Although it is generally believed to be a safe clinical procedure, serious lethal complications including death have been reported. We present a rare case of life-threatening cardiac tamponade due to penetrat...

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Autores principales: Chun, Kook-Jin, Lee, Sang-Gwon, Son, Bong Soo, Kim, Do Hyung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24685234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-61
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author Chun, Kook-Jin
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description Acupuncture as an ancient Chinese treatment has proven effective and is utilized worldwide. Although it is generally believed to be a safe clinical procedure, serious lethal complications including death have been reported. We present a rare case of life-threatening cardiac tamponade due to penetration of an acupuncture needle directly into the right ventricle.
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spelling pubmed-42300302014-11-14 Life-threatening cardiac tamponade: a rare complication of acupuncture Chun, Kook-Jin Lee, Sang-Gwon Son, Bong Soo Kim, Do Hyung J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Acupuncture as an ancient Chinese treatment has proven effective and is utilized worldwide. Although it is generally believed to be a safe clinical procedure, serious lethal complications including death have been reported. We present a rare case of life-threatening cardiac tamponade due to penetration of an acupuncture needle directly into the right ventricle. BioMed Central 2014-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4230030/ /pubmed/24685234 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-9-61 Text en Copyright © 2014 Chun et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_short Life-threatening cardiac tamponade: a rare complication of acupuncture
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24685234
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