1. Acupuncture for Symptom Management in Patients with Hyper-IgE (Job's) Syndrome.
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Ge, Adeline X. Y., Ryan, Mary E., Holland, Steven M., Freeman, Alexandra F., Anderson, Victoria L., Fei Wang, and Fleshman, Jim W.
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IMMUNOLOGICAL deficiency syndrome treatment ,ACUPUNCTURE ,ALTERNATIVE medicine ,ANALYSIS of variance ,HEALTH outcome assessment ,RESEARCH funding ,SELF-evaluation ,TREATMENT effectiveness ,PRE-tests & post-tests ,RETROSPECTIVE studies - Abstract
Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of acupuncture treatment for symptom management in patients with hyper-immunoglobulin E (IgE) syndrome (HIES). Design: This was a retrospective case series. Setting/location: The study was conducted at the The Clinical Research Center of the National Institutes of Health. Subjects: There were 8 adult patients with HIES ages 23-56 with varying symptoms in the study. Intervention: Acupuncture treatments were given from May 29, 2001 to February 17, 2009. Outcome measures: Acupuncture treatment efficacy was measured and evaluated using a 0-10 assessment instrument pre- and post-treatment. Results: The 8 patients with HIES suffered from a wide variety of symptoms related to the disease. Acupuncture treatments uniformly decreased the self-reported severity of symptoms. Conclusions: This case series demonstrates that acupuncture is a clinically useful and safe therapy for symptom management in patients with HIES. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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