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Clinical Research & Application
Gynecology, Obstetrics & Pediatries

PREVENTING INFECTIONS IN NEWBORNS IN HIGH RISK UNITS
WITH ACUPUNCTURE

Ysao YAMAMURA, Aparecida Assump o MENEZES, Angela TABOSA
Sector of Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture of Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Federal Universty of S o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina. Brazil.

Aim: Premature infants are responsible for a large part of the morbidity and mortality in newborn patients of the neonatology ICU. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of acupuncture in the prevention of infections pulmonary disease in high risk newborns.
Material: 121 newborn patients of the High Risk nursery of Hospital Alvorada Santo Amaro were observed.
Methods: 59 newborn infants were treated with acupuncture and evaluated over the course of four months. The data collected were compared with those collected through observing 62 infants born in the period immediately prior to, and had also been patients in the same unit and under the same conditions. We evaluated the relation between birth weight, gestation age, and the incidence of pulmonary and perinatal infection.
Results: Statistical methods applied to the data clearly show improved evolution of the infants treated with acupuncture with regard to perinatal infection, although the incidence of pulmonary disease was significantly higher in the treated group.
Conclusion: Stimulating Jing acupuncture points is an effective method for the treatment of perinatal and pulmonary infection in high risk newborns.


Experimental Research
Others

THE EFFECT OF ELECTRO ACUPUNCTURE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF MICE
OBSERVED IN AN OPEN FIELD AND IN AN ELEVATED PLUS MAZE

Angela TABOSA1, Ysao YAMAMURA1, Yara Maria ALMEIDA-SILVA2,
Roberto FRUSSA-FILHO2
1Sector of Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture of Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Federal University of S o Paulo/Eacola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil.
2Department of Farmacology of Federal University of S o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina.

Introduction: The benefits of acupuncture on the mental energy and its effect on enhancing emotional balance are well described in traditional Chinese medicine. A mouse's natural behavior is characterized by a tendency to explore the surrounding environment. This character is inhibited by anxiety. In an open field, anxious animals have a peripheral pattern of locomotion proportionally greater than the controls. In an elevated plus maze, anxious animals tend to explore the open arms proportionally less than the controls.
Aim: The present study was done to analyze the effect of electroacupuncture on the emotional status of mice, in two different behavioral models of anxiety (open field and elevated plus maze).
Material and Method: The animals were randomly distributed in 4 groups with 11 male mice each. In the control group (CONTROL group) the mice were not manipulated. Two other groups were immobilized for 15 minutes and respectively submitted to an electroacupuncture stimulus of 10 Hz in the points ST36 (Zusanli) and SP6 (Sanyinjiao) on both sides (RIGHT group) or in areas close to those points (WRONG group). In the IMOB group the mice were exclusively immobilized for 15 minutes. After a period of 5 minutes following all procedures, each mouse of the four groups was put in the center of the open field, and its behavior was analyzed in terms of: (1) total locomotion, (2) peripheral locomotion, (3) central locomotion, (4) rearing and (5) immobility. Immediately after, the animals were also observed for 5 minutes in the elevated plus maze quantifying the total crossing of the arms as well as the percentage of time they remained in the open arms.
Results: In the open field there was a significant decrease in the locomotion and rearing in the RIGHT, WRONG and IMOB groups, when compared to the CONTROL group. The RIGHT group had a significantly greater percentage of central locomotion than the WRONG and IMOB groups, indicating a possible anxiolytic effect of electroacupuncture. In the elevated plus maze the RIGHT and CONTROL groups had a significant increase in the percentage of time spent in the open arms than the IMOB and WRONG groups, reflecting a lesser degree of anxiety.
Conclusion: This study suggests that electroacupuncture, with stimulation of 10 Hz in points ST36(Zusanli) and SP6(Sanyinjiao) can decrease emotional reactions in the mice.


Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine

ANATOMIC ASPECTS OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL PULSOLOGY

M rcia Lika YAMAMURA1, Serafim Vincenzo CRICENTI1, Marco Ant nio DE ANGELIS1, Ysao YAMAMURA2
1Department of Morfology of Federal University of S o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil.
2ector of Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture of Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Federal University of S o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil.

Introduction: The radial artery in its inferior third forearm is used in the Chinese traditional medicine to measure the energetic conditions of the internal organs (Zang Fu).
Aim: To study the anatomical variations of the radial artery in the inferior third forearm.
Material & Methods: An anatomical study was carried out at the Department of Morphology (Anatomy) of Federal University of S o Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina, Brazil., in 56 adult cadavers (112 forearms), fixed and contained in a formaldehyde aqueous solution of 10%.
Results: An anatomic variation of the radial artery was found in the inferior third forearms of 23/112 (20.50%) of the dissected forearms. In 20/58(34.5%) of the forearms, the variation was found in the distal part of the inferior third forearm.
Conclusion: The importance of the knowledge of these variations in the distal portion of the radial artery is emphasized in the interpretation of the clinical findings when it occurs the discrepancy between the data obtained in the take of pulsology according with the Chinese traditional medicine and other propaedeutic data.

 

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