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KMID : 0385920080190040443
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Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2008 Volume.19 No. 4 p.443 ~ p.447
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Multi-Loculated Empyemas after Acupuncture
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Cho Soung-Hoon
Lee Yang-Deok
Han Min-Soo
Kim Do-Hyung
Kim Dong-Gyu
Yang Young-Mo
Na Dong-Jip
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Abstract
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There are several reported possible complications of acupuncture including hepatitis, pneumothorax, and cardiac tamponades, but the development of empyema is unusual. All the previously described cases of empyemas were due to acupuncture needles being inadvertently left in the thoracic cavities. We describe a thirty seven years old female patient who developed empyema after multiple acupuncture sessions whose disease course was unique because the empyema developed without an acupuncture needle being left in the thoracic cavity. This case demonstrates that an acupuncture needle being left in the thoracic cavity is not necessary for the development of empyema after acupuncture sessions as previously described.
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KEYWORD
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Acupuncture, Empyema, VATS, video-assisted thoracic surgery
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