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KMID : 0363320200410050902
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Journal of Korean Oriental Internal Medicine
2020 Volume.41 No. 5 p.902 ~ p.910
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Bilateral Medial Medullary Infarction (Dejerene Syndrome) Patient Suffering from Quadriplegia Treated by Korean Traditional Medicine: a Case Report
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Lee Yoo-Na
An Yu-Min
Baek Kyung-Min
Jang Woo-Seok
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Abstract
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Medial medullary infarction, with representing symptoms of hemiparesis, lingual palsy, and sensory defect, usually has a bad prognosis. The present case is unusual as the patient had a bilateral infarction, and little information is available for bilateral cases. We treated a patient diagnosed with bilateral medial medullary infarction with the symptoms of quadriplegia, lingual palsy, dyspnea, dysphagia, spastic pain, and loss of proprioception. After 126 days of traditional Korean medicine treatment, the patient showed increased muscle power, sensory recovery, reduced spastic pain, and alleviation of dysphagia and dyspnea. This report indicates that traditional Korean medicine could be an effective treatment of the sequelae of medullary infarctions.
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KEYWORD
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stroke, quadriplegia, medial meudllary syndrome, Korean traditional medicine
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