Male Sexual Function After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation—A Cross-sectional Nationwide Study

BackgroundData on adult sexual functioning after kidney transplantation (KTx) during childhood or adolescence are scarce.AimTo assess the long-term sexual and psychosocial quality of life after pediatric KTx.Methods29 young men (median age 27.1 years) were examined 18.7 years (median) after KTx. 56 age-matched healthy men (median age 30.0 years) served as controls.OutcomeWe studied the influence of sociodemographics, previous renal replacement therapy, current reproductive hormonal serum levels, testicular size, and data on several validated mental and physical questionnaires on participants' Derogatis Interview for Sexual Functioning self-report scores.ResultsThe KTx recipients had significantly poorer sexual functioning than their healthy peers. KTx men had less frequent sexual activity with a partner (P = .03) and poorer orgasms (P = .002) than the controls but no erectile dysfunction (P = .5).Clinical implicationsDepressive symptoms, relationship status, and longer dialysis duration predicted poor adult sexual functioning in KTx recipients, whereas age at transplantation or at the time of the study did not.Strengths & LimitationsThis study contributes extended follow-up data to the very scarce literature on adult sexual functioning in pediatric KTx recipients. Relatively small population and low participation rate limit the comprehensive data interpretation in a population-based cohort of male KTx recipients.ConclusionSexual functioning is often impaired in young men after pediatric KTx, emphasizing the need for long-term monitoring of sexual health and sexuality as important dimensions of quality of life.Tainio J, Jahnukainen T, Jalanko H, et al. Male Sexual Function After Pediatric Kidney Transplantation—A Cross-sectional Nationwide Study. J Sex Med 2020;17:2104–2107.     

临床护理路径在心血管患者静脉留置针中的研究分析

目的:提高静脉留置针使用有效期,保证心血管患者得到及时用药,有效开放静脉抢救通道。方法:建立了心血管患者静脉留置针的临床护理路径(Clinical Nursing Pathway,CNP)。选择我院2018年1-12月期间接诊的静脉留置针心血管患者为研究对象,共100例,随机分组,即对照组(50例,常规护理)与实验组(50例,在常规护理基础上辅以临床护理路径),比较两组护理效果,包括留置时间、不良反应情况、患者满意度等。结果:护理后,两组患者留置时间无明显差异,但实验组不良反应发生率、静脉炎发生率低于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05);实验组满意度、一次性置管成功率高于对照组,而非计划性拔管率则低于对照组,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论:心血管患者静脉留置针护理中辅以临床护理路径,可减少不良反应,预防静脉炎,延长置管时间,提高护理满意度,值得优选。     

针刺不同穴位对脑缺血模型大鼠脑血流量的影响

目的:探讨治疗缺血性脑梗死的有效方法及针刺治疗的穴位特异性.方法:Wistar成年雄性大鼠120只,随机分为正常组、假手术组、模型对照组、非针刺组和针刺组,针刺组又随机分为非穴组和"醒脑开窍"针刺法各主穴组,即水沟组、内关组、尺泽组、三阴交组和委中组.每组12只大鼠.复制大鼠大脑中动脉缺血模型(MCAO),分别对"醒脑开窍"针刺法主穴("水沟""内关""尺泽""三阴交""委中")以及非穴区,施以频率3次/秒、持续时间5 s的针刺干预,以脑血流量为评价效应指标.结果:与模型对照组比较,非针刺组脑血流量有所升高,但差异无统计学意义(P＞0.05);与非针刺组比较,针刺后的所有组别均可提高MCAO大鼠脑血流量(均P＜0.05);与非穴组比较,所有穴位组的脑血流量均升高,水沟组和内关组升高明显(均P＜0.05),而尺泽组、三阴交组、委中组与非穴组比较,差异无统计学意义(均P＞0.05).结论:①MCAO大鼠于梗死后72h内在脑血流方面存在自我修复和向愈的趋势;②给予针刺刺激后可促进MCAO大鼠脑血流量的改善,且改善作用明显高于其自身修复能力,是治疗缺血性脑卒中的有效方法;③"醒脑开窍"针刺法各主穴中,"水沟"和"内关"在改善MCAO大鼠脑血流量方面效果显著,有穴位特异性作用.     

急性脑血管病多学科一体化治疗模式对照研究

目的研究ACVD多学科一体化治疗模式对ACVD患者的疗效观察。方法建立完善的多学科一体化治疗的组织网络体系,共入选ACVD患者7202例,其中,将2000年6月至2005年6月在脑血管病治疗中心住院的ACVD患者共4089例作为治疗组(多学科一体化治疗),1995年5月至2000年5月住院的ACVD患者共3113例作为对照组(以往常规治疗法)。观察指标是神经功能缺损评分(NI HSS)、生活能力评分(BI)、牛津残障评价(OHS)、住院时间、病死率及合并症和出院后6个月残障评价。经SPSS Windows10.0统计学方法,进行分析。结果治疗组NI HSS-4.59±4.68、BI29.53±24.40、OHS-1.29±0.95对照组NI HSS-1.97±2.17、BI6.94±21.41、OHS-0.84±1.09两组比较有极显著意义(P<0.001),临床治愈率提高31.92%,平均住院日缩短8.8天,病死率降低了12.27%,并发症降低了12.52%,致残率降低了31.92%。结论多学科一体化治疗模式能提高治愈率、减少并发症、降低病死率和致残率、提高了患者的生活质量,是适合我国的ACVD的治疗模式。     

A double-blind cross-over study of nifedipine retard in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon

Summary The effectiveness of nifedipine retard as a treatment for Raynaud's phenomenon was assessed in 15 patients in a placebo controlled double blind study. An associated connective tissue disease was evident in 7 patients. Changes in finger and forearm blood flow (venous occlusion plethysmography), digital skin temperature and digital systolic pressure were measured acutely before and after a 2-week treatment period. Subjective assessment of efficacy was based on patient diary data. In addition alpha₂-adrenoceptor density on platelets was measured before and after chronic nifedipine therapy in both the patient group and in an age-and-sex-matched control group. No significant haemodynamic changes were observed. Nifedipine retard significantly reduced the frequency (p<0.05) with no change in either the duration or severity of vasospastic attacks. Side effects were commono following nifedipine retard. A reduction in alpha₂-adrenoceptor density on platelets was observed in patients compared to a control group (p<0.05). Alpha₂-adrenoceptor density was unchanged following a 2-week treatment period with nifedipine retard. This study concludes that nifedipine retard is not effective in the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon over a short time course. Patients with Raynaud's phenomenon have reduced alpha₂-adrenoceptor densities on their platelets.     

楮实对小鼠学习和记忆的促进作用

本试验采用食饵迷宫法和一次训练被动回避性条件反应——跳台法,观察了楮实对小鼠学习和记忆的促进作用。结果表明,楮实对正常小鼠的空间辨别学习、记忆获得有促进作用;可拮抗东莨菪碱造成的记忆获得障碍;改善氯霉素和亚硝酸钠造成的记忆巩固不良;改善30％乙醇引起的记忆再缺损,并对亚硝酸钠中毒缺氧有明显的改善作用。     

Autoregulation of contractility in the myocardial cell

Summary An investigation was carried out on isolated cat's papillary muscle in order to study displacement effects upon the intensity and the time course of the contractile activity. Displacements occurring before or very early during a contractile cycle produce effects which can be entirely explained on the basis of the cardiac active length-tension relation. Displacements occurring later exhibit additional effects in so far as either stretches or releases induce a drop of contractile activation such that the course of the subsequent tension development is markedly below that of the same displacement applied earlier. In order to separate these effects from those based on the active length-tension correlation experiments were performed in which very short release-stretch or stretch-release operations were applied so that the muscle length was virtually the same at the beginning and at the end of the operation. The results obtained under these conditions can be summarized as follows.The extend to which contractile tension drops after a stretch-release or a release-stretch cycle has been applied depends upon (1) the stimulus intervention interval (2) the length change performed (3) the velocity of displacement during the intervention. It is not dependent on the initial muscle length. Increasing the extracellular Ca-concentration considerably reduces the displacement effects. The results are tentatively explained by assuming an internal feedback loop between a variable of the contractile machinary and the preceding mechanism of activation.This investigation was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant Ka 287, 1+3).     

Temperature experiments on nerve and muscle membranes of frogs

The influence of temperature changes in the range of 25°C to –6°C on the time constants of Na activation (m) and inactivation (h) was studied in twitch muscle fibers and the node of Ranvier under voltage-clamp conditions. Arrhenius plots of m and h exhibit a change in activation enthalpy at temperatures below 10°C. Cooling and subsequent heating induce a hystersis in the temperature dependence of m and h Ni²⁺ and UO ₂ ²⁺ increase the hysteresis width. With fast temperature changes the gating kinetics relax to their new values more slowly than the temperature change. Hence, temperature must be changed more slowly than 5°C/min if an additional apparent hysteresis due simply to this relaxation is to be avoided. The data are explained by the hypothesis of a phase transition in the membrane lipids. This conception is favoured over a temperature-induced change in protein conformation, since the neutral local anaesthetic benzocaine shows use-dependent block as if low temperature restricted the access of the drug through the lipid phase to its receptor.Supported by grant NS 08174 from the U.S. Public Health Service and SFB 38 from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

Voluntary smooth eye movements with foveally stabilized targets

Summary We investigated the capacity of 6 humans to make voluntary smooth eye movements with a horizontally stabilized foveal point target. When the target was viewed on a dark field, all subjects were able to make smooth oscillatory eye movements when they attempted to imitate their own normal pursuit of sinusoidal target movement (0.2–0.7 Hz) directly preceding the stabilization on the fovea. The frequency of the imitating eye movement was in general lower than the frequency of normal pursuit by 2–35%. While fixating a foveally stabilized point target superimposed on a large, sinusoidally moving non-stabilized background, all subjects were able to make either no eye movements, eye movements nearly in phase with or eye movements nearly in counterphase with the background movement depending on the instruction to imagine the target as head-stationary, moving in phase, or moving in counterphase with the background. The accuracy of the frequency of the smooth eye movement with the stabilized target on the moving background was higher than during imitation of pursuit on the dark field but the precision of the frequency was lower than during normal pursuit. When the background moved pseudo-randomly all subjects could voluntarily inhibit their smooth eye movements or could make smooth eye movements in phase with the background. Only 2 subjects showed a limited ability to make smooth eye movements opposite to the pseudo-random background movement. The results suggest that with predictable background movement the volition of the subject rather than the movement of the background determines the eye movements when the subject looks at the foveally stabilized target.     

No disturbance of myelination in the central nervous system by selective3Hβ-irradiation

Summary The effect of a selective irradiation of myelin by³H -particles was studied by light and electron microscopic methods in guinea pig spinal cord. The animals were injected with [³H]leucine shortly after birth when the rate of myelin biosynthesis is high and sacrificed 130 days later. In spinal cord the radioactivity was mainly preserved in myelin because the half life of myelin proteins is much higher than that of most other CNS protein. As a consequence the irradiation dose in the white matter was much higher than in the gray matter. In myelin internally irradiated by³H -particles within 130 days at a dose of 10 Gy no alterations could be detected either by morphological or by morphometric methods.Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft