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Preliminary Study on Acupuncture Combined with Grain-sized Moxibustion for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis with Finger Joint Pain
Published on: May 16, 2025
[Treatment of rheumatic diseases and pulmonary toxicity]
J Schreiber1, U Müller-Ladner2
11Klinik für Pneumologie, Universitätsklinikum der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Leipziger Straße 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Deutschland.
Abstract:
Rheumatic diseases are treated with manifold different drugs that can potentially be pneumotoxic. Adverse effects of drug therapy may induce a wide variety of bronchopulmonary and pleural disorders, which can have a life-threatening course. These side effects rarely have pathognomonic features; therefore, drug-induced diseases are relevant differential diagnoses of pulmonary manifestations of rheumatic diseases, infections, and other independent genuine pulmonary diseases. Diagnosis is based mainly on verification of a compatible disease pattern and exclusion of differential diagnoses, as well as on assessment of the temporal relationship and the consequences of drug abstention.
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