Integrative Medicine thoracolumbar vertebral compression fractures caused 25 cases of acute abdominal pain.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Integrative Medicine thoracolumbar vertebral compression fractures caused 25 cases of acute abdominal pain [Keywords:] thoracolumbar vertebral compression fractures, acute abdominal pain, TCM-WM therapy Especially in outpatient clinics in gastroenterology chief complaint of acute abdominal pain on the first visit elderly patients should be considered in addition to the common cause of the abdominal cavity, there should be alert to unusual causes outside the abdominal cavity. Now in the hospital for 1998-2005 The first out-patient clinic of the thoracolumbar vertebral compression fractures caused by acute abdominal pain and 25 elderly patients of Integrative Medicine described below. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General Information 25 patients 23 female, 2 males, aged 73 to 94 years, mean 79.5 years, duration of 5 ~ 10 d or so. 1.2 Clinical manifestations 25 patients complained of upper abdominal or Cullen are more single-season rib area or double cropping severe pain rib area, and the onset of changes associated with the position, usually supine, stand, sit or turn the position when the pain worsened, wide range of pain, location uncertain, but the pain still capable to endure, and often accompanied by anxiety, poor sleep, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, poor stool, constipation embolism, 3 patients complained of sleep were often because of changing position pain wake up. Most patients before treatment of gastrointestinal disease by medication, infusion symptomatic treatment of poor efficiency, not accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, palpitations, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and urine and other symptoms. Examination: body temperature, normal blood pressure, body skin, mucosa stained, non-bleeding spots, cardiopulmonary no special found that the soft abdomen, liver and spleen no time, but more hyperalgesia associated with abdominal skin, the touch of skin that feel pain, spinal check most of the diffe