The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website and App

Frequency - Incidence

Incidence of respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as assessed by number of reported/published cases in the literature. Red digits in stars indicate: 0 = Very rare, questionable signal · 1 = < 10 cases · 2 = 10-50 cases · 3 = 50–100 cases · 4 = 100-200 cases · 5 = >200 cases

Evidence level/grade

Evidence level for respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as estimated using Hill’s (1965), Naranjo’s (1981), and Bégaud’s (1985) criteria applied to published cases. Blue digits in stars indicate: 0 = Questionable · 1 = Low · 2 = Moderate · 3 = Robust · 4 = Definite · 5 = Unquestionable, pathognomonic

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Pneumothorax

Publications

Weagle K, Henneberry RJ, Atkinson P

Pneumothorax Following Acupuncture.

Cureus 2021 Mar 31;13;e14207 — 2021 Mar 31 — e14207

Lin SK, Liu JM, Hsu RJ, Chuang HC, Wang YX, Lin PH

Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan.

Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society 2019 Dec;37;332-339 — 2019 Dec — 332-339

Sia CH, Leow AS, Leong BS

Traumatic Pneumothorax Secondary to Acupuncture Needling.

Cureus 2018 Aug 23;10;e3194 — 2018 Aug 23 — e3194

Jian J, Shao Y, Wan L, Zhang M, Liu N, Zhang J, Chen Y

Autopsy diagnosis of acupuncture-induced bilateral tension pneumothorax using whole-body postmortem computed tomography: A case report.

Medicine 2018 Nov;97;e13059 — 2018 Nov — e13059

Grusche F, Egerton-Warburton D

Traumatic Pneumothorax Following Acupuncture: A Case Series.

Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 2017 Mar;1;31-32 — 2017 Mar — 31-32

Mohammad N

Bilateral tension pneumothorax after acupuncture.

BMJ case reports 2018 Apr 19;2018; — 2018 Apr 19

Scharf ML, Kommuri A

Delayed recognition of an uncommon cause of iatrogenic pneumothorax.

Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2015 Apr;22;162-4 — 2015 Apr — 162-4

Conway N, Sreenivasan S

The acupunctured lung.

The American journal of emergency medicine 2014 Jan;32;111.e1 — 2014 Jan — 111.e1

Harriott A, Mehta N, Secko M, Romney ML

Sonographic diagnosis of bilateral pneumothorax following an acupuncture session.

Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU 2014 Jan;42;27-9 — 2014 Jan — 27-9