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Improvement of Pneumonia in a Patient with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Herbal Medicine after Cessation of Antibiotics - a Case Report

  • Song, Si Yeon (Department of Clinical Korean Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Jeon, Hyeonjin (Department of Clinical Korean Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Sookyung (Cancer Center, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University)
  • Received : 2017.06.01
  • Accepted : 2017.06.16
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

A 73-year-old non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient admitted due to cough, sputum, and dyspnea, aggravated a week ago. She was diagnosed as pneumonia based on the assessment of inflammation markers, chest X-ray and sputum culture. Computed tomography (CT) scan was conducted to exclude malignant tumor metastasis. At the initiation of treatment, considering underlying disease and inflammation marker level, herbal medicine and antibiotics were concurrently used and antibiotics had been discontinued after 10days. Using the monotherapy of herbal medicine in the next 6 days, chest X-ray showed remarkably decreased infiltration in right middle lung and right lower lung. This case represented additional improvement of chest X-ray when treated only with herb medicine after termination of antibiotic therapy and demonstrated the possibility of applying herbal medicine in patients with limited use of antibiotics.

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