PMID- 23573135
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130704
LR  - 20240222
IS  - 1741-427X (Print)
IS  - 1741-4288 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-427X (Linking)
VI  - 2013
DP  - 2013
TI  - Adverse events of acupuncture: a systematic review of case reports.
PG  - 581203
LID - 10.1155/2013/581203 [doi]
LID - 581203
AB  - Acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping, important in traditional Eastern medicine, 
      are increasingly used in the West. Their widening acceptance demands continual 
      safety assessment. This review, a sequel to one our team published 10 years ago, 
      is an evaluation of the frequency and severity of adverse events (AEs) reported 
      for acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping between 2000 and 2011. Relevant 
      English-language reports in six databases were identified and assessed by two 
      reviewers. During this 12-year period, 117 reports of 308 AEs from 25 countries 
      and regions were associated with acupuncture (294 cases), moxibustion (4 cases), 
      or cupping (10 cases). Country of occurrence, patient's sex and age, and outcome 
      were extracted. Infections, mycobacterial, staphylococcal, and others, were the 
      main complication of acupuncture. In the previous review, we found the main 
      source of infection to be hepatitis, caused by reusable needles. In this review, 
      we found the majority of infections to be bacterial, caused by skin contact at 
      acupoint sites; we found no cases of hepatitis. Although the route of infection 
      had changed, infections were still the major complication of acupuncture. 
      Clearly, guidelines such as Clean Needle Technique must be followed in order to 
      minimize acupuncture AEs.
FAU - Xu, Shifen
AU  - Xu S
AD  - Acupuncture Department, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese 
      Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China ; Center for Integrative Medicine, School of 
      Medicine, University of Maryland, East Hall, 520 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 
      21201, USA.
FAU - Wang, Lizhen
AU  - Wang L
FAU - Cooper, Emily
AU  - Cooper E
FAU - Zhang, Ming
AU  - Zhang M
FAU - Manheimer, Eric
AU  - Manheimer E
FAU - Berman, Brian
AU  - Berman B
FAU - Shen, Xueyong
AU  - Shen X
FAU - Lao, Lixing
AU  - Lao L
LA  - eng
GR  - R24 AT001293/AT/NCCIH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130320
PL  - United States
TA  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
JT  - Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
JID - 101215021
PMC - PMC3616356
EDAT- 2013/04/11 06:00
MHDA- 2013/04/11 06:01
PMCR- 2013/03/20
CRDT- 2013/04/11 06:00
PHST- 2012/12/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/02/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/04/11 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/04/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/04/11 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/03/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2013/581203 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:581203. doi: 10.1155/2013/581203. 
      Epub 2013 Mar 20.