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ReviewBMC complementary medicine and therapies2022

HyperCKemia associated with acupuncture: a case report and review of the literature.

Xiaochan Tan, Wei Liu, Yuzheng Du, Xianggang Meng, Xuemin Shi

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Review in BMC complementary medicine and therapies, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiaochan Tan *First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Wei Liu *First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Yuzheng DuFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xianggang MengFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xuemin ShiFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China. tjdrshi@outlook.com.
First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

the National Key Research and Development Program of China 2019YFC0840709
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAcupuncture therapy has been widely used as an alternative therapy to treat multiple diseases, such as sequelae of stroke, pain, facial paralysis and so on. In recent years, few adverse events related to acupuncture treatment have been reported, among which hematoma, bleeding and dizziness are the main manifestations. However, to date, there have been no existing cases reported the association between acupuncture therapy and asymptomatic/pauci-symptomatic hyperCKemia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a patient who developed hyperCKemia during 5 sessions of acupuncture at different frequencies. After stopping acupuncture treatment for 1 month, follow-up showed a significant downward trend in serum creatine kinase (sCK). However, after that this patient started to get acupuncture treatment again in order to improve the sequelae of stroke. Meantime, the sCK rose again.

conclusionHyperCKemia may associated with acupuncture therapy. All kinds of adverse events of acupuncture should be recorded comprehensively and objectively so as to improve the safety standard system of acupuncture therapy.

Indexed as

Acupuncture TherapyAnimalsCreatine KinaseHumansMaleMiddle AgedStrokeCreatine KinaseAcupunctureAdverse eventsCreatine kinaseHyperCKemiaStatins

Identifiers

PMID35090456
PMCPMC8796466
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