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Ischemia monomelic neuropathy is rare and underrecognized complication of hemodialysis access (HA), characterized by diffuse multiple mononeuropathies in the absence of significant clinical ischemia. It is important to diagnose this syndrome early because ligation of the HA is the most accepted treatment to prevent or at least halt irreversible neural dysfunction and therefore, chronic pain and disability. Literature describing this fistulae-related pathology is rare, and we attempt to increase its awareness.

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Successful treatment of chronic nausea and vomiting related to body piercing and tattooing with integrative medicine interventions.

Holist Nurs Pract

May 2015

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey (Dr Chung); Chung Institute of Integrative Medicine (Dr Chung) and Won Sook Chung Foundation (Drs Chung and LaRiccia), Moorestown, New Jersey; New Jersey Chapter of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, Morganville, New Jersey (Dr Chung); Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Dr LaRiccia); Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the departments of Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine (Dr LaRiccia).

Chronic nausea and vomiting of uncertain etiology can be debilitating and uncomfortable for patients while frustrating for clinicians. This article presents the case of a young woman with chronic nausea and vomiting of unknown etiology resulting from body piercing and tattoo scars on body areas that Chinese Medicine asserts are related to the gastrointestinal system. The patient had long-term total resolution after 1 treatment session consisting of neural therapy for scars resulting from a tongue ring, belly ring, and tattoo near her left wrist along with acupuncture treatment.

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