冠心病患者无症状心肌缺血阈的分析

目的：探讨冠心病患者无症状心肌缺血阈的临床意义。方法：应用24h动态心电监测，检测62例冠心病患者心肌缺血阈值、MIT的变异度、每次缺血发作持续时间和ST段最大位移，以及昼夜缺血次数。结果：共检出506次心肌缺血，93．5％在ST段压低时心率加快，夜间心肌缺血阈值较低，但缺血时间及ST段压低程度明显重于昼间。结论：心肌缺血有不同的机制，应根据情况给予不同的治疗。     

抗NMDAR脑炎血清抗NMDAR抗体阴性患者临床分析

目的 探讨血清抗N-甲基-D-天冬氨酸受体(NMDAR)抗体阴性的抗NMDAR脑炎患者的临床表现特征、治疗及其预后特点.方法 收集郑州大学第一附属医院2013-09—2019-12确诊为抗NMDAR脑炎的60例患者,根据其血清中抗NMDAR抗体的情况分为血清抗体阴性组和阳性组,分析2组临床表现特征、辅助检查、治疗及预后...     

KRAS and colorectal cancer: ethical and pragmatic issues in effecting real-time change in oncology clinical trials and practice

Systemic therapy has led to a median survival time for patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) almost fourfold longer than that expected with best supportive care, an outcome achieved through combining chemotherapeutic and targeted biologic agents. Although the latter can include anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibodies, such as cetuximab and panitumumab, we now have strong evidence that patients whose tumors harbor mutated KRAS will not benefit from this class of agent. Acceptance of the reliability and importance of the KRAS data took several years to evolve, however, for a variety of reasons. The timeline from the presentation and publication of small, retrospective phase II studies to widespread acceptance of the KRAS predictive value and changes in behavior-specifically, modifications of ongoing national trials in advanced/metastatic CRC, changes in national guidelines and practice patterns, and adjustments to the labeled indications for the monoclonal antibodies-was lengthy. In this commentary, we discuss whether or not the process of data disclosure regarding KRAS status and treatment of advanced CRC patients was effective in permitting timely decisions regarding ongoing publicly funded clinical trials and whether or not such decisions were rational and ethical. The overall goals are to highlight lessons learned regarding early disclosure of clinical trial results, as well as vetting and adoption of new scientific data, and to propose modifications for handling similar situations in the future.     

The design of the SAFE or SORRY? study: a cluster randomised trial on the development and testing of an evidence based inpatient safety program for the prevention of adverse events

Background  

Patients in hospitals and nursing homes are at risk of the development of, often preventable, adverse events (AEs), which threaten patient safety. Guidelines for prevention of many types of AEs are available, however, compliance with these guidelines appears to be lacking. Besides general barriers that inhibit implementation, this non-compliance is associated with the large number of guidelines competing for attention. As implementation of a guideline is time-consuming, it is difficult for organisations to implement all available guidelines. Another problem is lack of feedback about performance using quality indicators of guideline based care and lack of a recognisable, unambiguous system for implementation. A program that allows organisations to implement multiple guidelines simultaneously may facilitate guideline use and thus improve patient safety.     

Flt3L对COPD大鼠铜绿假单胞菌肺炎的防治研究

目的 建立铜绿假单胞菌(PA)肺部感染大鼠慢性阻塞性肺疾病(COPD)模型,研究Flt3L(Fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand )对其炎症反应的防治作用.方法 将50只健康雄性清洁级Wistar大鼠随机分为对照组(NS组)、PA感染对照组(NPA组)、COPD大鼠组(COPD组)、COPD大鼠PA感染组(CPA组)和COPD大鼠PA感染Flt3L处理组(Flt3L组),每组动物各10只.用烟雾暴露法复制大鼠COPD模型,气管内滴入PA溶液复制肺部PA感染模型.COPD组、CPA组、Flt3L组大鼠分别在第1～60天以烟雾暴露法复制COPD模型,Flt3L组于第61～65天连续给予Flt3L(20g/kg)腹腔注射,每天1次,连续5d,第66天同时建立NPA组、CPA组和Flt3L组模型.24h后计算大鼠死亡率,对支气管肺泡灌洗液(BALF)、肺组织进行细菌学、细胞学、病理学等研究.无菌操作下取出大鼠脏器进行细菌培养、菌落计数及细菌鉴定.结果 Flt3L组大鼠存活率(87.5%)显著高于CPA组(50.0%)(P<0.01),Flt3L组大鼠支气管肺泡灌洗液中淋巴细胞数[(0.41～0.05)×109/L]与CPA组[(0.24～0.04)×109/L]比较显著增加(P<0.01),光镜下观察比较发现Flt3L组大鼠肺组织炎症反应较CPA组明显减轻,脏器细菌培养阳性率CPA组(37.5%)显著高于Flt3L组(12.5%)(P<0.01).结论 Flt3L能够增强COPD大鼠对PA肺部感染的抗病力.     

Serum heparan sulfate levels are elevated in endotoxemia

Background

Increased vascular permeability is a characteristic feature of sepsis which, in the past, has been ascribed exclusively to a malfunction of endothelial cells. However, recently it has become evident that the endothelial glycocalyx is of considerable importance concerning various aspects of vascular physiology, e.g. the vascular barrier and inflammation. Heparan sulfate, one of its essential components is characteristically traceable in blood, in case the endothelial glycocalyx is damaged or destroyed.

Methods

In 15 pigs we investigated whether the administration of endotoxin from gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli) results in increased serum levels of heparan sulfate, signalizing a shedding of the glycocalyx. In addition, markers of inflammation (white blood cell count, platelet count, tumour necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6) were evaluated over an observation period of 6 hours.

Results

Serum heparan sulfate concentrations significantly increased over time in the endotoxin group and were significantly elevated in comparison to the control group 6 hours after administration of endotoxin (p < 0.001). In the endotoxin group all markers of inflammation significantly changed during the time course.

Conclusions

The administration of bacterial endotoxin induced a significant rise in degradation products of the endothelial glycocalyx.     

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection in obstructive and non-obstructive azoospermia

We compared the results of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in: (i) obstructive versus non-obstructive azoospermia, (ii) obstructive azoospermia using epididymal versus testicular spermatozoa and (iii) acquired versus congenital obstructive azoospermia due to congenital absence of the vas deferens (CAVD). A retrospective analysis was done of 241 consecutive ICSI cycles done in 103 patients with non- obstructive azoospermia and 119 patients with obstructive azoospermia. In the obstructive group, 135 ICSI cycles were performed. Epididymal spermatozoa were used in 44 cycles and testicular spermatozoa in 91 cycles. In the non-obstructive group, 106 cycles were performed. The fertilization and pregnancy per cycle rates were 59.5 and 27.3% respectively using epididymal spermatozoa, 54.4 and 31.9% respectively using testicular spermatozoa in obstructive cases, and 39 and 11.3% respectively in non-obstructive cases. The fertilization and pregnancy per cycle rates were 56.6 and 37% respectively in acquired obstructive cases, and 55.2 and 20.4% respectively in CAVD. In conclusion, ICSI using spermatozoa from patients with acquired obstructive azoospermia resulted in significantly higher fertilization and pregnancy rates as compared to CAVD and non-obstructive cases.      

Use of Canonical Correfslation Analysis to Evaluate the Strength of Relationships between Clinical and Biological Parameters

Studies were performed using, an example, the relationship between nonspecific immunity factors and therapeutic efficacy in endogenous psychosis. The canonical correlations method demonstrated a strong and significant (Canonical, R > 0.8; p = 0.02) positive relationship between the efficacy of treatment with neuroleptics (haloperidol and clozapine) and pretreatment nonspecific immunity factors in a group of juvenile and young adult (16–34 years) men with schizophrenia (34 patients), with first onset of manifest endogenous psychosis. Treatment efficacy was assessed in terms of the reduction (%) in total points on the PANSS or the numbers of points on PANSS subscales for positive, negative, and psychopathological disorders between the beginning and end of treatment (60 days). Initial values for nonspecific immunity factors (T-lymphocyte γ-interferon production levels, proportion of phagocytosing neutrophils and monocytes, and lymphocyte natural killer cytotoxic activity) were found to account for 67.3% (i.e., more than two thirds) of treatment efficacy. The contribution of nonspecific immunity factors resulted mainly from their essentially identical influences on decreases in positive and psychopathological symptoms and was minimal in relation to decreases in negative symptoms on the PANSS. The strongest relationships were seen with weighting coefficients for nonspecific immunity factors (in decreasing order) of 0.567 for the proportion of phagocytosing neutrophils and monocytes, 0.518 for T-lymphocyte γ-interferon production levels, and 0.334 for lymphocyte natural killer cytotoxic activity. It is suggested that there are reductions in the activities of factors of the cellular components of nonspecific immunity before manifestation of disease, which create the conditions for activation of persistent latent microorganisms (in the present case cytomegalovirus infection) in the patient’s body, with formation of therapeutic resistance. This method may find wide use in clinical and biological psychiatry and neurology.