CTA在动脉性大出血介入栓塞治疗中的应用

目的 探讨CT血管造影（CTA）在动脉性大出血介入栓塞治疗中应用的策略及临床效果.方法 120例动脉性大出血患者在介入栓塞治疗前行CTA检查,在介入手术中寻找所有的出血动脉,并逐一进行检塞治疗.88例患者栓塞治疗2周后复查CTA检查.对CTA在动脉性大出血介入栓塞治疗中的应用效果进行回顾性总结评价.结果 120例动脉性大出血的患者在介入栓塞治疗前行动脉CTA检查,共找到162支病变的出血动脉,介入手术中共找到178支出血动脉并成功栓塞治疗.术前CTA检查诊断的准确率为91.01％（162/178）.88例患者栓塞治疗后CTA检查显示所有已栓塞的出血动脉栓塞效果良好.结论 介入栓塞治疗前CTA检查可以为栓塞治疗中寻找出血动脉提供准确的定位作用.栓塞治疗后行CTA检查有利于对栓塞疗效的准确判定.     

Changes in social emotion recognition following traumatic frontal lobe injury

Changes in social and emotional behaviour have been consistently observed in patients with traumatic brain injury. These changes are associated with emotion recognition deficits which represent one of the major barriers to a successful familiar and social reintegration. In the present study, 32 patients with traumatic brain injury, involving the frontal lobe, and 41 ageand education-matched healthy controls were analyzed. A Go/No-Go task was designed, where each participant had to recognize faces representing three social emotions (arrogance, guilt and jealousy). Results suggested that ability to recognize two social emotions (arrogance and jealousy) was significantly reduced in patients with traumatic brain injury, indicating frontal lesion can reduce emotion recognition ability. In addition, the analysis of the results for hemispheric lesion location (right, left or bilateral) suggested the bilateral lesion sub-group showed a lower accuracy on all social emotions.     

高血压性脑出血血肿清除术后癫痫发作的影响因素分析

目的 探讨高血压性脑出血颅内血肿清除术后并发癫痫发作的影响因素。方法 回顾性分析2011年3月至2018年7月开颅血肿清除术治疗的485例高血压性脑出血的临床资料。采用多因素logistic回归分析检验术后并发癫痫的危险因素。结果 485例中,术后发生癫痫62例（12.9%）。多因素logistic回归分析结果显示,血肿体积≥60 ml、血肿位于小脑、术后再出血、术后电解质紊乱、脑电图异常、术前C反应蛋白（CRP）水平升高、术前肿瘤坏死因子-α（TNF-α）水平升高、术前白细胞介素-6（IL-6）水平升高是术后并发癫痫发作的独立危险因素（P<0.05）。结论 高血压性脑出血开颅血肿清除术后癫痫发作发生率较高,对于血肿较大、血肿位于小脑、术后再出血、术后电解质紊乱、脑电图异常、术前CRP、TNF-α、IL-6水平升高的病人,应采取针对性措施预防术后癫痫发作。     

Therapeutic potential of erythropoietin and its structural or functional variants in the nervous system

The growth factor erythropoietin (EPO) and erythropoietin receptors (EPOR) are expressed in the nervous system. Neuronal expression of EPO and EPOR peaks during brain development and is upregulated in the adult brain after injury. Peripherally administered EPO, and at least some of its variants, cross the blood-brain barrier, stimulate neurogenesis, neuronal differentiation, and activate brain neurotrophic, anti-apoptotic, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory signaling. These mechanisms underlie their tissue protective effects in nervous system disorders. As the tissue protective functions of EPO can be separated from its stimulatory action on hematopoiesis, novel EPO derivatives and mimetics, such as asialo-EPO and carbamoylated EPO have been developed. While the therapeutic potential of the novel EPO derivatives continues to be characterized in preclinical studies, the experimental findings in support for the use of recombinant human (rh)EPO in human brain disease have already been translated to clinical studies in acute ischemic stroke, chronic schizophrenia, and chronic progressive multiple sclerosis. In this review article, we assess the studies on EPO and, in particular, on its structural or functional variants in experimental models of nervous system disorders, and we provide a short overview of the completed and ongoing clinical studies testing EPO as neuroprotective/neuroregenerative treatment option in neuropsychiatric disease.     

Early-onset bipolar disorder: how about visual-spatial skills and executive functions?

Early-onset bipolar disorder is an impairing condition that is strongly associated with genetic inheritance. Neurocognitive deficits are core traits of this disorder which seem to be present in both young and adult forms. Deficits in verbal memory and attention are persistent within euthymic phases in bipolar adults, adolescents, and children. In younger samples, including type I or II and not otherwise specified patients, executive functions are not widely impaired and the existence of visual-spatial deficits remains unclear. The main aim of this study was to compare the neurocognitive performance in young stabilized type I or II bipolar patients and healthy controls. Fifteen medicated adolescents with bipolar disorder and 15 healthy adolescents, matched in age and gender, were compared on visual-spatial skills (reasoning, memory, visual–motor accuracy) and executive functioning (attention and working memory, set-shifting, inhibition) using t-tests and MANCOVA. Correcting for verbal competence, MANCOVA showed that patients performed significantly worse than controls in letters and numbers sequencing (P = 0.003), copy (P < 0.001) and immediate recall (P = 0.007) of the Rey Complex Figure Test, interference of the Stroop Color-Word Test (P = 0.007) and non-perseverative errors on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (P = 0.038). Impaired cognitive performance was found in young bipolar patients in working memory, visual-motor skills, and inhibitory control.     

Nonreplication of the association between ab-ridge count and cerebral structural measures in schizophrenia

The origins of cerebral abnormalities in psychotic patients remain unknown. Dermatoglyphics are suitable markers of prenatal injury due to their fetal ontogenesis and their susceptibility to some of the factors that also affect cerebral development. In a previous study, positive associations between brain volumetric measures and a dermatoglyphic marker, the ab-ridge count, were reported. The present study is an attempt to replicate that finding in an independent sample. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and dermatoglyphic measures were available for 29 schizophrenia patients (Research Diagnostic Criteria [RDC] criteria) and 26 unrelated healthy controls. The images were processed using an automated procedure, yielding volumes of total grey matter, white matter, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and total brain volume. The ab-ridge count was not positively associated with brain volumes in either patients or controls. The present findings do not support the hypothesis that the changes in brain volume seen in patients with schizophrenia are of prenatal origin.     

Childhood discoid lupus erythematosus: a Tunisian retrospective study of 16 cases

Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is uncommon in children. The clinical features of childhood DLE are similar to those of adult DLE in presentation and chronic course. However, children have a particularly high level of transition to systemic disease. We undertook a retrospective study of 16 children with DLE ranging in age from 2 to 15 years, seen over a 9-year period. Six were less than 10 years old at the onset of the disease. The sex ratio was equal. The frequency of childhood DLE was about 7% of the total number of DLE patients seen in our department. Photosensitivity was defined as a clinical history of induction or exacerbation of discoid lesions following sun exposure, and was present in 81% of patients. There was no progression to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); an average follow-up time was 10.5 months (2-30 months). We would like to emphasize the increased frequency of childhood DLE in our country and the importance of photosensitivity. However, follow-up data regarding transition to SLE is lacking, therefore we are unable to offer a prognosis to our patients.     

Further evidence that congenital dermatoglyphic abnormalities are associated with psychosis: a twin study

The presence of abnormal palmar flexion creases (APFC) and dermatoglyphic ridge dissociation (RD) may constitute enduring evidence of a prenatal insult that occurred before the third trimester of intrauterine life. We examined these dermatoglyphic abnormalities in a twin study of psychotic disorders. RD and APFC were analyzed in a monozygotic (MZ) twin sample from the Maudsley Hospital in London (11 normal control pairs, 16 pairs concordant for psychosis, 9 pairs discordant for psychosis, 1 concordant triplet, and 1 triplet with one affected member). The risk of either RD or APFC was 44 percent in affected twins and 20 percent in nonaffected twins (odds ratio = 3.25, 95% confidence interval: 1.03-10.31; one-sided p = 0.023). In the group of MZ twins discordant for psychosis, discordance for RD or APFC always paralleled discordance for psychosis (one-sided p = 0.078), suggesting the operation of nongenetic factors. The results confirm previous work suggesting the possibility that nongenetic factors early in pregnancy contribute to the liability to develop psychosis in later life.     

电针对脑出血大鼠脑组织病理形态学及脑组织含水量和神经损伤积分值的影响

目的 :观察电针对大鼠脑出血模型的疗效。方法 :选择胶原酶加肝素联合注射法诱导脑出血大鼠模型 ,观察电针不同穴位对其脑组织病理形态学、脑含水量和神经损伤积分值的影响。结果 :电针水沟组 (取水沟、上星穴 )、电针风府组 (取风府、哑门穴 )均可明显改善胶原酶加肝素联合注射法诱导大鼠脑出血模型的脑组织形态学损害和神经行为功能的缺损 ,降低因出血导致的血肿周围组织的水肿 ;且电针水沟组在改善大鼠脑出血模型的脑组织形态学损害和神经行为功能的缺损方面 (72h姿势反射和平衡反射积分值 )优于电针风府组。结论 :电针水沟、上星和电针风府、哑门对大鼠脑出血损伤均有一定程度的保护作用 ,且前者的保护作用优于后者