Jung, Changjin

Kim, Jihye

Kim, Keunho

Ku, Boncho

Elsevier - Publisher Connector 

Trends in Tongue Color of Subtype patterns on Deficiency Syndrome 

29 ICCMR 2015 Oral Presentation Abstracts
Conclusion: The effect of heavymetals on testosterone lev-
els in male patients with infertility remains unclear. There is
however suggestive evidence that cupping therapy can have
a positive impact on testosterone levels in male infertility.
Further trials with larger population sample sizes utilising a
randomisation methodology is recommended.
Contact: Kaleem Ullah Rajput,
kaleem.rajput@medipol.com.tr
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2015.04.353
Oral PresentationSession 14: Clinical Research –Diagnosis and
Others
OS14.02
Comparison between Infrared
Thermographic Scrotal Temperature Index
and Semen Quality among Men attending an
Infertility Clinic
Junyoung Jo1, Myung-Ja Kang2, Jinmoo Lee3,
Hyunho Kim4
1 Department of Korean Gynecology, Graduate
School of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University/
Conmaul Hospital
2 Conmaul Hospital
3 Department of Korean Gynecology, Graduate
School of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University
4 Department of Biofunctional Medicine &
Diagnostics, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung
Hee University
Purpose: It has been suggested that scrotal temperature
and semen quality are closely associated. The purpose of this
study is to explore the associations of the scrotal temperature
measured by the infrared thermography and semen quality
among infertility clinic outpatients.
Methods:Weperformeda retrospective chart reviewof out-
patients who visited at Conmaul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of
Korea from March 2013 to February 2015. In this study, 48
outpatients who had taken scrotal thermography and semen
analysis with a difference of less than amonth were included.
Semen analysis was done according to 2010 World Health
Organization (WHO) guidelines. Abnormal semen parameter
was deﬁned as oligozoospermia (O), asthenozoospermia (A)
and teratozoospermia (T) according to 2010 WHO guidelines.
Scrotal temperature index (STI) was deﬁned as mean left and
right skin temperature difference (T) between the thigh and
testicle.We divided patients into two groups as High STI group
(n=26) and Low STI group (n=22) by mean STI (1.17) of 48 out-
patients. Chi-square test was used to analyze the incidence of
at least two abnormal semen parameters between two groups.
Results: There were 10 patients (OT=1, AT=7, OAT=2) and
2 patients (AT=1, OT=1) with at least two abnormal semen
parameters in High STI group (n=26) and Low STI group (n=22),
respectively. High STI group was associated with increased
incidences for at least two abnormal semen parameters than
Low STI group (OR= 6.25; 95% CI 1.195-32.687, p=0.019).
Conclusion: In the hypothesis testing using chi-square
method, there was a signiﬁcant difference of incidence of
at least two abnormal semen parameters according to STI.
We suggest that the infrared thermography may provide the
semen quality information. Further studies with large sam-
ples are needed.
Contact: Junyoung Jo, studd@naver.com
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2015.04.354
OS14.03
Trends in Tongue Color of Subtype patterns
on Deﬁciency Syndrome
Changjin Jung, Keunho Kim, Boncho Ku,
Jihye Kim
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
Purpose: Traditional East Asian Medicine posits that the
tongue color (TC) in patients with the deﬁciency syndrome
(DS) differ according to its subtype patterns. The DS is cat-
egorized into four subtype patterns (FSPs) based on the qi,
blood, yin and yang; and it provides helpful information for
treatment of DS in clinic. However, a clinical evidence of TC
difference according to the FSP has not appeared in paper. In
this study, wemeasured the TC with an objective method and
analyzed its differences according to the FSPs on DS.
Methods: One-hundred and twenty-three subjects with DS
were participated in the experiment and classiﬁed into qi deﬁ-
ciency (n=32), blood deﬁciency (n=31), yin deﬁciency (n=30)
and yang deﬁciency (n=30) groups based on the agreements
of diagnostic results between two Korean oriental medicine
doctors. Tongue images were acquired by using a TAS-4000
instrument, and a color correction was performed based on
12 color samples of the color checker. Median values (MV) of
the tongue region in Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage
(CIE) L*a*b* color space, which represents the color of a tongue
body, were computed for the tongue color features. Red blood
cell count (RBCC) was measured from the blood sample. Dif-
ferent trends of TCs according to the FSP were analyzed using
multiway ANOVA with factors age and sex.
Results: MV of CIE L* showed difference according to the
FSPs (p<0.01). MVs of CIE L* of blood deﬁciency group were
signiﬁcantly higher than those of other three groups. Pearson’s
partial correlation coefﬁcient between RBCCs andMV of CIE b*
with age and sex was -0.303.
Conclusion: The TC in the blood deﬁciency was tended to
be brighter than those in other FSPs on DS. The TC seems to
be related with RBCC, but the trend of color difference in the
blood deﬁciency differs from that according to RBCC.
Contact: Changjin Jung, traviswas@kiom.re.kr
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2015.04.356


file:///data/remote/core/dit/data/elsevier/pdf/2fe/aHR0cDovL2FwaS5lbHNldmllci5jb20vY29udGVudC9hcnRpY2xlL3BpaS9zMjIxMzQyMjAxNTAwMzgwNw==.pdf

Trends in Tongue Color of Subtype patterns on Deficiency Syndrome

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Elsevier - Publisher Connector

Elsevier - Publisher Connector