Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report

A 40-year-old man presented with refractory pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection, despite administration of antituberculous drugs for 2 years. We administered ninjinyoeito (NYT) to the patient, who experienced weight gain and demonstrated marked reduction in the lung cavity lesions. Thus,...

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Autor principal: Nogami, Tatsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820436/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31681686
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_606_19
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description A 40-year-old man presented with refractory pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection, despite administration of antituberculous drugs for 2 years. We administered ninjinyoeito (NYT) to the patient, who experienced weight gain and demonstrated marked reduction in the lung cavity lesions. Thus, the traditional Japanese medicine, NYT could serve as an adjunct to the conventional pharmacotherapy for pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection.
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spelling pubmed-68204362019-11-01 Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report Nogami, Tatsuya J Family Med Prim Care Case Report A 40-year-old man presented with refractory pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection, despite administration of antituberculous drugs for 2 years. We administered ninjinyoeito (NYT) to the patient, who experienced weight gain and demonstrated marked reduction in the lung cavity lesions. Thus, the traditional Japanese medicine, NYT could serve as an adjunct to the conventional pharmacotherapy for pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6820436/ /pubmed/31681686 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_606_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report
title_full Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report
title_fullStr Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report
title_short Potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: A case report
title_sort potential therapeutic effect of ninjinyoeito for the treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820436/
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