Diagnosis and management of adverse reaction due to botulinum toxin type A / 中华医学美学美容杂志

Objective To analyze the clinical manifestation caused by local injections of botulinum toxin type A for cosmetic reason and the effect of antitoxin for adverse reaction.Methods Diagnosis and treatment process of 40 patients were retrospectively analyzed for adverse reactions due to botulinum toxin injections for beauty.Severe adverse reaction was assessed according to the patients clinical manifestation and the nervous system of physical assessment.The patients were given symptomatic treatment,observation or antitoxin therapy.Results Adverse reactions developed in 40 patients were mainly the nervous system abnormalities.Dyspnea developed in four cases.34 cases (85 ％) were given symptomatic treatment.4 cases (10 ％) were given botox treatment,and the patients were followed up for 1-3 months.The patients fully recovered to normal and did not leave any neurological sequelae.Conclusions The management of type A botulinum toxin injections should be strengthened.In case of poisoning,antitoxin therapy should be given as early as possible.

Secondary infection of traumatic pulmonary cyst misdiagnosed as cholesterol encapsulated pleural effusion:a rare case and review of literature / 中南大学学报(医学版)

Pulmonary cyst is a relatively common benign lesion.It is easy to be misdiagnosed when the cyst complicated with infection.Tnis paper reported a case of a giant traumatic pulmonary cyst (diameter 10 cm) combined with chronic infection.Firstly,the patient was diagnosed as cholesterol pleurisy after undergoing thoracoscopic biopsy.With repeated pleural effusion,the patient was scheduled for right anterolateral thoracotomy,which showed a thin-walled cyst (10 cm in diameter) attached to parietal and diaphragm,with the stem of cavity originated from the right lower lobe after the cyst cavity was dissociated.Pathological examination revealed that it was apseudocyst,which could be diagnosed as traumatic pulmonary cyst combined with chronic infection according to history of trauma.After undergoing right lower lobectomy and stripping of fiberboard,the prognosis was good.Traumatic pulmonary cyst,which was discovered interval 10 years after chest trauma,was rare.Traumatic pulmonary cyst combined with cholesterol cystic fluid was very rare.Huge pulmonary cyst complicated with infection was easily misdiagnosed as loculated pleural effusion.Therefore,to be correct diagnosis and treatment,clinician must carefully ask medical history.In addition,early image examination should be considered in those patients with chest trauma whether there are clinical symptoms or not.