Prospective Investigation of Adverse Effects of Acupuncture in 97 733 Patients

Meta-analysis: Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

“…At least 3 large and rigorous shamcontrolled trials, 2 still ongoing and 1 recently completed but not yet published, will have a major effect on the existing evidence. Safety is best determined with large prospective surveys of practitioners, and 3 such surveys (17)(18)(19) show that serious adverse events after acupuncture are rare. No adverse events were associated with acupuncture in our review, although heterogeneous reporting and relatively small sample sizes limit the usefulness of our data.…”

Measuring the Thickness of the Abdominal Wall at Abdominal Acupoints Using Ultrasonography and Analyzing Correlations with Physical Examination Values in Functional Dyspepsia Patients

“…The sensitivity for detecting bony osteolytic lesions was 51.7% for radiography, 74.7% for computed tomography, and 95.4% for magnetic resonance imaging as reported by Walde et al [106]. Gender, age, BW, and waist girth (1) Using the therapeutic depth over safety depth ratio (T/S ratio) as the indicator of therapeutic depth (2) No significant difference in the T/S ratio between genders (3) The T/S ratio of these 12 acupuncture points ranged from 0.67 to 0.88 and increased significantly with body weight, age, and waist girth (4) The therapeutic depth of abdominal acupoints was closer to the safe depth in overweight and older children aged 7 to 15 (5) No significant difference between genders (1) Overweight group had the greatest de-qi depth (2) Points of female chest had greater depth than male (3) No correlations between the de-qi depth and electric resistance of each point Yet MRI scanogram is slightly less accurate compared with radiographic scanogram in detecting limb length differences [107]. In addition, we also found several studies discussing the divergence among different measuring tools when investigating various body tissues including adipose volume (visceral or subcutaneous), muscle thickness, bone loss, and cartilage thickness.…”

“…Given the fact of the rising incidence of chronic disease and stress-related illness in the West, along with an expanding awareness of the unwanted side effects of pharmaceutical treatment, there has been an increased utilization of acupuncture as a contemporary health care option [2]. Acupuncture is also practiced by about 40,000 physicians in Germany [3]. One of the three most commonly used methods of CAM is acupuncture in the United Kingdom [4].…”

Pneumotórax pós-acupuntura: apresentação clínica e tratamento

“…A Figura 1 mostra a agulha utilizada em um dos casos de nossa série; é interessante notar que esta é significativamente mais longa que a agulha 30x7mm, habitualmente utilizada para toracocentese diagnóstica. A ocorrência de pneumotórax pós-acupuntura é rara, tendo sido observado, em revisão sistemática, um evento a cada 125 mil sessões 11 , e, em estudo observacional prospectivo, dois casos em 97.733 pacientes submetidos a acupuntura 12 . Ainda assim, em uma revisão recente de artigos reportando eventos adversos relacionados a acupuntura (incluindo relatos de caso, séries de casos e outras formas de publicação), foram contabilizados 715 casos, destes, 191 foram pneumotórax, 17 resultando em morte 3 .…”