The Journal of the Society of Stroke on Korean Medicine (대한중풍순환신경학회지)

The Society of Stroke on Korean Medicine (대한중풍순환신경학회)
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Chest pain of unstable angina treated with oriental medicine therapies: A case report

불안전 협심증을 진단받은 환자의 흉통 한방 치험 1례

  • Kim, Myung-ho (Dept. of Oriental internal medicine, Dongguk University Il-san Oriental medicine hospital) ;
  • Ahn, Lib (Dept. of Oriental internal medicine, Dongguk University Il-san Oriental medicine hospital) ;
  • Choi, Dong-jun (Dept. of Oriental internal medicine, Dongguk University Il-san Oriental medicine hospital)
  • 김명호 (동국대학교 일산한방병원 한방내과) ;
  • 안립 (동국대학교 일산한방병원 한방내과) ;
  • 최동준 (동국대학교 일산한방병원 한방내과)
  • Published : 2014.08.01
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Abstract

A 44-year-old male complained of chest pain. Two years ago he was diagnosed with angina pectoris for stenosis of coronary artery in coronary angiography. Despite of medication, his chest pain aggravated to cardiovascular society classification class III. His electrocardiogram, cardiac enzymes were normal. Accordingly we diagnosed him with unstable angina. And we pattern differentiated him with heart heat syndrome considering his other symptoms. He wanted conservative care instead of coronary artery intervention generally recommended for treating unstable angina. We treated him for 13-days with tongxinluo, modified daochi-san, acupuncture, smoking prohibition which were thought to be effective for treating unstable angina based on experimental, clinical studies. Within the therapeutic period, frequency of chest pain and frequency of taking nitroglycerin were on the decrease.

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