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Aortoduodenal fistula complicated by acupuncture.

Chang SA, Kim YJ, Sohn DW, Park YB, Choi YS

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 28 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea.

Recently, acupuncture has become a common therapeutic procedure for pain control worldwide. Although it has been repeatedly reported that acupuncture is effective and safe, several serious complications were also reported. In this article, we present a case of 68-year-old man who died of massive hematemesis resulting from aortoduodenal fistula (ADF), a rare complication of acupuncture therapy.

Published 19 September 2005 in Int J Cardiol, 104(2): 241-2.
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