School-Based Cardiovascular Health Promotion: The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH)

The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) is a multisite intervention research study that builds on significant progress made in school health education research in the 1980s. The study has three phases: Phase I deals with study design, intervention, and measurement development, Phase II involves the main trial in 96 schools in four states, and Phase III focuses on analysis. The intervention program targets third-fifth grade students and focuses on multiple cardiovascular health behaviors, including eating habits, physical activity, and cigarette smoking. Classroom curricula, school environmental change, and family involvement programs are developed for each grade level and behavioral focus. This paper describes Phase II of CATCH with a rationale for cardiovascular health promotion with youth. The process of change that appears to be necessary for school-based health promotion and that will be tested in CATCH are presented as a framework to guide these efforts.     

闭胸心肺复苏时主动脉内带水囊导管持续阻塞降主动脉的血流动力学效应

为了提高闭胸心肺复苏时心肌冠状循环灌注压(CPP),我们分别观察了用主动脉内带水囊导管周期性阻塞胸主动脉或腹主动脉(OTA/OAA),以及不同剂量肾上腺素(0.02～0.14mg/kg)对CPP的影响。结果:OTA不能提高CPP。然而,在复苏30min内,每3minOAA之后,CPP都比各期阻塞前血压高0.67～1.2kPa(P<0.05或0.01);解除阻塞3 min后,CPP比各期解除前血压低0.8～1.6kPa(P<0.05或0.01)。另外,使用肾卜腺素只在复苏的前9min有效。结论:OAA可以显著提高闭胸心肺复苏时的CPP;在复苏后期,其作用优于大剂量肾上腺素。     

Invasive techniques for the diagnosis of respiratory infectious diseases

Conclusion Reviewing the history of diagnostic procedures of causative organisms of respiratory infections, invasive techniques such as the protected specimen catheter (PSB) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) have become the preferred choices because they have many advantages. These methods cause the patient relatively little discomfort, and permit an early diagnosis since they can easily be performed at the bedside and the causative organism from the disease site is obtained in cultures. These procedures can be used not only in patients with community-acquired lung infections, but also in immunocompromised hosts, including those with blood diseases or following renal transplantation, in patients in intensive care units and in mechanically-ventilated patients so that the cause can be accurately determined and chemotherapy started quickly, resulting in better therapeutic efficacy. Although these invasive procedures are advantageous for the diagnosis of respiratory infections, they also present various problems which remain to be addressed including minimizing contamination and setting diagnostic threshold values. However, the importance of accurately determining the causative organism in respiratory infections should be recognized as the most important factor, and these methods have shown to date to provide the most accurate information to aid in the timely treatment of respiratory infections in a wide variety of patients.     

Congenital endophthalmitis following maternal shellfish ingestion

Purpose: To highlight an unusual organism causing a unilateral endophthalmitis by transplacental spread.
Method: We report a case of Plesiomonas shigelloides endophthalmitis, presenting in a newborn, with co-existing septicaemia and meningitis. There was a significant maternal history of diarrhoea associated with the ingestion of oysters 2 weeks prior to delivery.
Result: The endophthalmitis was treated with parenteral antibiotics and topical mydriatics with complete resolution, although subsequent assessment of the affected eye suggests a poor visual outcome.
Conclusion: Endophthalmitis in the newborn is an unusual clinical finding and usually presents with other manifestations of bacteraemia. Plesiomonas shigelloides is fortunately an infrequent cause of neonatal infection, but is associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. We postulate that this neonate acquired P. shigelloides via the transplacental route, and suggest that this organism be included in the list of 'other' causes of transplacental infection that has been abbreviated to 'O' in the acronym TORCH.     

松龄血脉康抑制肺动脉高压的实验研究

为观察松龄血脉康胶囊对肺动脉高压大鼠肺动脉压的影响，取１００只健康Ｗｉｓｔａｒ大鼠，其中６０只背部注射野百合碱ｍｏｎｏｃｒｏｔａｌｉｎｅ，ＭＣＴ８０ｍｇ／ｋｇ复制出肺动脉高压模型。再将其分为两组，各３０只，其中一组以标准饲料喂养，另一组加用松龄血脉康胶囊１．５ｇ·ｋｇ－１·ｄ－１。其余４０只健康大鼠做为正常对照组，在实验当天、７天、１４天、２１天、２８天、３５天从各组中随机抽取５只行右心导管测肺动脉压。结果：注射ＭＣＴ后肺高压组２８天时达高峰，但加用松龄血脉康组上升幅度明显小于未用药组。结论：松龄血脉康有显著抑制大鼠肺动脉高压发展的作用     

Normothemic Continuous Blood Cardioplegia Improves Electrophysiologic Recovery after Open Heart Surgery

Background: Myocardial protection during open heart surgery is based on administration of oxygenated blood cardioplegia, the preferred temperature of which is still under debate. The current randomized study was designed to prospectively evaluate the quality of myocardial protection and the functional recovery of the heart with either normothermic (group N) or hypothermic (group H) oxygenated blood cardioplegia.

Methods: Under continuous electrocardiographic Holter monitoring, 42 patients were randomly scheduled to receive either normothermic (33.5 degrees C) or hypothermic (10 degrees C) cardioplegia solutions during coronary bypass grafting surgery. Blood samples for creatinine phosphokinase, creatinine phosphokinase-MB, lactate, epinephrine, and norepinephrine were withdrawn during cardiopulmonary bypass via a coronary sinus cannula.

Results: Active cooling in group H on initiation of cardio-pulmonary bypass was characterized by transition through ventricular fibrillation in 75% of patients, whereas in group N atrial fibrillation occurred in 65% of patients. On myocardial reperfusion, sinus rhythm spontaneously resumed in 95% of group N patients compared to 25% in group H (P = 0.0003). In the latter, 75% of patients developed ventricular fibrillation often followed by complete atrioventricular block, which necessitated temporary pacing for a mean duration of 168+/-32 min. Both groups showed a similar incidence of intraventricular block and ST segment changes. However, the incidence of ventricular premature beats in the first 16 h after cardiopulmonary bypass was significantly greater in group H (P < 0.05), 20 +/-26/h, compared to 3+/-5/h in group N. Blood concentrations of lactate, creatinine phosphokinase, epinephrine, and norepinephrine increased gradually during the operation, but the differences between the groups were not significant.     

人食管不典型增生上皮与原位癌的计算机纹理分析研究

采用计算机图象纹理分析和相关点阵检测技术,对人食管正常粘膜、不典型增生上皮及原位癌的不同纹理特征进行了观察。观察样品为常规病理切片,用计算机图象分析系统检测了组织的纹理特征。对受检图象建立了三种灰色分层关系矩阵,同时计算了8种纹理测度。结果显示,在重度不典型增生上皮和原位癌之间,其纹理测度和相关点阵检测数据均有显著性差异(P<0.05)。全部测量数据经计算机多元逐步判别分析,其正判率达90%以上。本研究结果表明,计算机纹理分析方法可正确地判别食管癌前病变和原位癌的组织结构异型性。提示本技术在食管癌的早期诊断方面具有肯定的实用性价值。     

肝阳上亢证甲皱微循环观察与分析

以我所统一标准,确诊为“肝阳上亢证”者,进行微循环观察,肝阳上亢证者90例;阴虚阳上亢证者88例,健康对照组48例。观察发现肝阳上亢组与健康对照组及阴虚阳亢组与健康对照组均有显著性差异。通过卡方证明本检测数据可靠,微循环观测可作为“肝阳上亢证”的客观检测指标之一。