Efficacy of electroacupuncture pretreatment for myocardial injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomized clinical trial with a 2-year follow-up

Cardioprotection of Electroacupuncture for Enhanced Recovery after Surgery on Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Replacement with Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Randomized Control Clinical Trial

“…Therefore, we detected the serum concentrations of the two biomakers with cTnI and hFABP. The data in our study presented that cTnI was significantly increased at the start of surgery and was markedly lowered in EA group compared to control group at the time points of 30 min, 60 min, 90 min, 360 min, and 1440 min postoperatively that differenced from the previous studies, which showed a significance at the time points of 6 h, 12 h, and 24 h postoperatively [16, 17]. In contrast, hFABP exerted the peak of hFABP approximately fifteen doubles over the baseline at 30 min after CPB (63.0 ± 4.8 versus 62.6 ± 4.8) and were followed by a fast decrease to three doubles of baseline at 24 hour after operation; these data indicate the differences from previous studies, but the serum concentrations of hFABP rising up were significantly slower in EA group as graphed in Figure 5 from the start of surgery to 30 minutes of CPB ( P < 0.05) and were lower to control group at different time points postoperatively, which implied that EA could accelerate the serum concentrations of hFABP returning to close to the baseline.…”

“…EA at the heart meridian acupoints has been reported to attenuate cardiac injury, such as decreasing myocardial enzymes and infarction [6, 7, 16, 17], and correcting arrhythmia [8, 19], which were induced by acute myocardial ischemia and reperfusion. It is well known that serum cTnI concentration was adopted as a sensitive biomarker to evaluate the severity of myocardial injury.…”

“…According to modern medicine, in the projection area of the motor and sensory cortex, as well as in the projection area of the anterior cerebral artery which is Baihui acupoint (GV20), it is probably an important acupoint in preventing and treating cerebral diseases, and it enhances the adults' postoperative cognitive function [12–16]. Shenting (GV24) is a useful acupoint with effects of sedation and treating dysphoria [17]. Whether EA is beneficial for patients' enhanced recovery after cardiovascular surgery is not clear.…”

Does acupuncture reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction?

“…A clinical outcome study also showed better outcome in an acupuncture treatment group. Wang et al 12 reported that electrical acupoint stimulation reduced the myocardial infarction rate after percutaneous coronary intervention during 2 years of follow-up (50.0% vs. 30.4%, p  = 0.004). In a systematic review about angina pectoris, the “acupuncture plus antiangina” medication group showed better electrocardiographic improvement than the medication-only group (risk ratio, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.40–0.62) 13 .…”

The Beneficial Effects of Electro-acupuncture at PC6 (Neiguan-point) of Gene and Protein Expressions of Classical Inward-rectifier Potassium Channels in Myocardial Ischemic Rats

“…In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), meridian system is a network of passages and connects zang-fu function with skin and the whole superficial regions of body. Therefore PC6 is the common acupoint for heart diseases [23][24][25]. Furthermore, according to "Huangdi Neijing", the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin runs from chest to hand and the Triple Energizer Meridian of Hand-Shaoyang runs from hand to chest [20].…”