重症急性胰腺炎33例临床分析

目的　加强对重症急性胰腺炎的认识 ,探讨重症急性胰腺炎的有效治疗方法。方法　对我院 1997～ 2 0 0 3年收治的 3 3例重症急性胰腺炎作回顾性分析。结果　 3 3例病人中 ,治愈 2 8例 ,死亡 5例。行手术治疗 12例 ,死亡 2例 ;行非手术治疗 2 1例 ,死亡 3例。休克和MOF是主要死亡原因。结论　重症急性胰腺炎治疗宜采用手术治疗与非手术治疗并存在的双轨制体系 ,早期以非手治疗为主 ,应严格掌握手术指征。     

144例脑血管意外患者死亡时间节律分析

目的　揭示脑血管意外死亡的年节律、月相节律以及昼夜节律 ,为临床及时防治提供时间依据。方法　采用流行病学调查方法收集资料 ,用 χ2 检验及圆形分布法来分析资料。结果　①脑出血死亡时间存在向上半夜集中的昼夜节律 ;②脑梗死死亡时间存在向冬季和下半夜集中的年节律和昼夜节律。结论　脑出血死亡存在昼夜节律 ,脑梗死死亡存在年节律和昼夜节律。     

Cholesterol reduction and death from noncoronary causes: evidence from randomised controlled trials*

An overview of randomised trials of cholesterol reduction (26 trials, 50,000 patients, net cholesterol reduction ?10%) provides clear evidence of a reduction in the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) after just a few years of treatment. Overall, the observed reduction in CHD death (9%± 3) was only half as large as the reduction in non-fatal myocardial infarction (19%±4), although both were statistically significant (2p <0.005). In these trials, 60% of all deaths were from CHD, and since treatment reduced these by about 9%, the expected reduction in total deaths was about 5–6%. This expected reduction falls within the 95% confidence interval of the observed effect of cholesterol reduction on total mortality in these trials. There were small excesses of deaths from cancer and deaths from trauma among patients allocated active treatment. However, in no single trial, nor in the trials collectively, were these increases individually statistically significant. Furthermore, the increases did not appear to be specific to any one agent nor were the increases consistent between trials of the same agent. These observations suggest that the small excesses of noncoronary deaths observed in the cholesterol reduction trials may have occurred by chance. Evidence from ongoing longer-term studies of treatments producing larger cholesterol reductions will be useful in further delineating the effects, if any, of such treatments on non-coronary mortality.     

Diatoms and drowning

Summary An examination is made of the applicability of quantitative and qualitative diatom analysis to the diagnosis of death by drowning, definition of the environment in which drowning occurred, and delimitation of the area where it occurred. The material comprises 107 bodies of subjects known or suspected to have died by drowning together with a control series of 15 bodies of subjects over 30 years of age who had died of various diseases on land.Whenever diatoms were found in the greater circulatory organs they were also found in the lungs, and when none were present in the lungs none were found in the other organs either. No diatoms or fragments of diatoms were found in the samples from the control subjects. All the fresh, well-preserved bodies for which death by drowning could be regarded as certain from the macroscopic autopsy findings and police reports, the cases used to test the method, gave quantitative diatom results that supported a diagnosis of water aspiration.The diatoms identified in the qualitative analyses served well to describe the ecological properties of the environments in which death had taken place, and the site of drowning could be defined by means of comparative water samples provided that sufficient diatoms were present, the local environment was not too homogeneous or the diatoms were not of quite different species due to a completely unknown location of death.     

Male suicides and alcohol consumption in the former USSR

A significant decline (34.5%) in the suicide rate occurred in 1984–1988 throughout the USSR. The decline was observed shortly after the introduction of strict restrictions on the sale of alcohol. We tested the hypothesis that the restrictive alcohol policy in the first years of perestroika (June 1985) caused the fall in suicide rates in the former USSR. Data on alcohol consumption, violent death caused by external injury and poisoning (n= 916,315), death due to accidental alcohol poisoning (n= 77,837), suicide (n= 192,305) and death undetermined whether accidentally or purposely (n= 54,253) were analyzed for all former Soviet republics for 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1990. Men were chosen for the analysis, since men are more prone to abuse alcohol than women. Regression analysis with alcohol consumption as the independent variable and suicide rates and violent death rates as dependent variables shows that suicide and alcohol consumption were positively correlated as were violent death and alcohol consumption. In the republics with high alcohol consumption (Slavic and Baltic), suicide rates were also high. In the Caucasian republics, low alcohol consumption was associated with low suicide rates. For most republics, alcohol seems to explain more than 50% of suicides. Alcohol also has considerable explanatory value for violent death. Thus, a restrictive alcohol policy might be a way to reduce suicide and violent death.     

肥厚型心肌病预后评估的研究进展

肥厚型心肌病是最常见的遗传性心脏病,其临床表现及预后极富多样性。该病患者的不良转归主要有:猝死、心力衰竭以及心房颤动所致的栓塞事件等。现就影响肥厚型心肌病预后的因素作一综述。     

Transplant data: sources, collection and research considerations, 2004

The process of collecting and analyzing transplant data is complex. Familiarity with how these data are collected is crucial to a thorough understanding of the information. This article focuses on available OPTN-SRTR data and the continuing evolution of data collection mechanisms; how that data collection system is improving the data quality and reducing the data collection burden; how additional ascertainment of outcomes both completes and validates existing data; and caveats that remain for researchers. This year's article focuses further on research considerations related to cohort choice, timing of data submission, and potential biases in follow-up data. Ongoing improvements in data collection timeliness and scope are covered. The impact of extra ascertainment of outcomes, particularly for post-transplant kidney graft failure from Medicare data, are also examined. A section on graft failure reporting among different sources traces the steps by which the SRTR reconciles different data sources in its analyses. It is important that those reading and conducting transplant research understand the origin, structure, and scope of the available data. All of these issues should be carefully considered when choosing cohorts and data sources for analysis.     

Sudden death due to arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: Two case reports

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a kind of primary myocardial disease characterized by the regional or global replacement of right ventricular myocardium by fatty and fibrolipomatous tissues. The ARVC, usually presenting with different clinical manifestations and pathological changes, were mainly seen in young men and is one of the main causes of sudden death in the young. Here two autopsied cases of Chinese men aged 30 and 23 years old who appeared healthy but died suddenly while at work are reported respectively. One of the victims had extensive and severe pathological changes in his heart involving the left ventricular wall as well as the ventricular septum and the right atrium. Not only was there a global fatty and fibrolipomatous tissue replacement of the right ventricular myocardia, but also mild sarcoplasmic coagulation in the myocardium and focal lymphocytic infiltration in the myocardial interstitium of the right ventricular wall. In addition, slight atherosclerosis of the coronary artery and intimal thickening of the sino-atrial node were observed. It is believed that there are no marked differences in the pathological changes of ARVC between Chinese patients and patients from western countries. The etiology and pathogenesis of ARVC could not be explained by a single cause or factor and they are probably related to various congenital and acquired causes or factors.     

187例肾移植受者死亡原因分析

目的分析肾移植受者的死亡原因。方法回顾性分析1978年至2003年期间进行同种肾移植的1400例受者资料。对肾移植后受者的死亡率、死亡原因和时间进行分析。结果1400例肾移植受者中,共死亡187例,死亡率为13.36%。187例受者的死亡原因依次为感染、心脑血管疾病和肝功能衰竭;所占比率分别为37.97%、31.56%和14.97%。死亡的受者中,移植肾有功能的87例,占46.5%。结论感染、心脑血管疾病及肝功能衰竭是肾移植后受者死亡的主要原因。将近一半的受者死亡时移植肾有功能。     

颈椎脊髓损伤早期死亡原因分析

目的探讨颈椎脊髓损伤早期死亡原因。方法回顾性分析1993年1月～2005年12月63例颈椎脊髓损伤早期死亡病例的一般状况、受伤原因、受伤至入院时间、脊柱损伤节段、脊髓损伤严重程度、合并伤、颈椎脊髓损伤影像学表现、治疗方法、过程及结果,总结其早期死亡的原因。结果本组49例因呼吸衰竭死亡,8例因多脏器功能衰竭死亡,2例因癫痫发作导致急性呼吸、循环衰竭死亡,2例因多发伤导致肺部感染及感染性休克死亡,2例因上消化道大出血导致出血性休克死亡。结论呼吸衰竭为颈椎脊髓损伤早期死亡的首要原因,其与脊髓损伤节段及损伤程度密切相关。