Risk stratification in patients with remote prior myocardial infarction using rest-stress myocardial perfusion spect: prognostic value and impact on referral to early catheterization

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the prognostic value of myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with remote prior myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS AND RESULTS: We identified 1413 consecutive patients with remote prior MI who underwent rest-stress myocardial perfusion SPECT. Semiquantitative visual analysis of 20 SPECT segments was used to define the summed stress, rest, and difference scores. The number of non-reversible segments was used as an index of infarct size. During follow-up (>or=1 year), 118 hard events occurred: 64 cardiac deaths (CDs) and 54 recurrent MIs. Annual CD and hard event rates increased significantly as a function of SPECT abnormality. For summed stress scores less than 4, 4 to 8, 9 to 13, and more than 13, the annual CD rates were 0.4%, 0.9%, 1.7%, and 3.5%, respectively (P =.002). Patients with small MI (<4 non-reversible segments) and no or mild ischemia (summed difference score or=4 non-reversible segments) had moderate to high annual CD rates (3.7%-6.6%) regardless of the extent of ischemia. Nuclear testing added incremental prognostic information to pre-scan information. Compared with a strategy in which all patients are referred to catheterization, a strategy that referred only those patients with a risk for CD of greater than 1% by myocardial perfusion SPECT resulted in a 41.6% cost savings. CONCLUSIONS: Myocardial perfusion SPECT adds incremental value to pre-scan information and is highly predictive and cost-efficient in the risk stratification of patients with remote prior MI. Patients with normal or mildly abnormal scan results or small MI in combination with absent or mild ischemia have a low risk for CD.     

双联抗血小板治疗伴易损斑块的轻度症状性颈动脉狭窄的疗效和安全性

目的：探讨阿司匹林联合氯吡格雷治疗伴易损斑块的症状性颈动脉狭窄患者的疗效和安全性。方法利用颈动脉超声检查筛选205例存在颈动脉易损斑块,且颈动脉狭窄＜50％的缺血性卒中患者,随机分为阿司匹林治疗组（单抗组）102例和阿司匹林联合氯吡格雷治疗组（双抗组）103例,比较两组治疗90 d内外周血基质金属蛋白酶－9（MMP －9）的变化,以及卒中和血管性意外事件的发生率。结果治疗21 d后,双抗组血液中M M P －9浓度下降值高于单抗组[（77．26±13．71）ng／ml比（96．86±16．52）ng／ml ,P＜0．01]。双抗组90 d内脑梗死总复发率和同侧复发率均低于单抗组（3．88％比11．76％,P ＝0．035;1．94％比8．82％,P ＝0．029）,两组对侧脑梗死复发率差异无统计学意义（1.94％比2．94％,P＝0．643）。双抗组同单抗组相比,出血事件（0．97％比0,P＞0．05）和急性冠脉综合征的发生率（1．94％比5．88％, P ＝0．145）差异均无统计学意义。结论对于伴易损斑块的症状性颈动脉狭窄患者,阿司匹林联合氯吡格雷双联抗血小板治疗相对阿司匹林单抗治疗更具优势。     

超声引导经皮射频治疗肝脏良恶性肿瘤

目的 评价经皮射频(PRFA)治疗肝脏良恶性肿瘤的效果、安全性及实用性。方法 应用RF-2000射频仪和10电极LeVeen射频针经皮穿刺治疗肝脏恶性肿瘤114例153个病灶和良性肿瘤13例16个病灶，共计127例169个病灶。B超引导监测，局麻配合全身镇痛处理，对于肿瘤病灶大于2．5cm者进行分层多点叠合毁损，大于5．0cm或多发的恶性肿瘤配合肝动脉导管化疗栓塞术，随访观察治疗效果、并发症和生存情况。结果 实施成功率100％，PRFA治疗肝脏恶性肿瘤并发症发生率6．14％(7／114)，均保守治愈，无相关死亡。PRFA治疗肝脏良性肿瘤未遇并发症，病人均健在。114例肝脏恶性肿瘤病人的3个月、6个月、1年、2年、3年生存率分别为100％(114／114)、97．4％(111／114)、74．6％(85／114)、59．4％(41／69)和36．8％(7/19)。结论 PRFA微创、有效、简捷、实用、可重复、相对安全，在肝脏恶性肿瘤的综合治疗中有重要价值，亦可作为肝脏良性肿瘤的一种选择疗法。     

Business knowledge in surgeons

BACKGROUND: Surgeons and residents in training receive little, if any, formal education in the economic side of clinical practice during medical school or residency. As medical professionals face shrinking reimbursement, loss of control over health care decisions, and limited resources, surgical specialties must reevaluate the need to teach their members business survival skills. Before designing business related-teaching modules, educators must know the exact gaps in knowledge that exist among surgeons. METHODS: This article reports a survey of 133 surgeons in the Midwest who were asked to rate their knowledge base in 11 business topics relevant to the practice of medicine. RESULTS: The survey showed that the average surgeon perceives himself or herself to be poorly equipped to understand basic financial accounting principles, financial markets, economics of health care, tools for evaluating purchases, marketing, budgets, antitrust and fraud and abuse regulations, and risk and return on investments. CONCLUSIONS: Armed with this data, teaching faculty, health care systems, and medical specialty societies should design business education seminars to better position surgical specialists and trainees to communicate with insurers, hospital administrators, health care organizations, and their own personal financial advisors.     

Outcome of patients with dual diagnosis in secondary psychiatric care

Background: Dual diagnosis (DD) is a common co-morbidity of mental illness and substance use disorder (SUD) and patients with DD are prone to complications. Better knowledge on the outcome, mortality and management of patients with DD in usual secondary psychiatric care would help to inform improved treatment strategies in the future. Aims: To explore the functional outcome and mortality of patients with DD receiving psychiatric treatment. To assess the recognition of substance use disorders (SUDs) in terms of diagnosis, and the associations of clinically diagnosed SUDs with treatment-related variables. Methods: The sample of 330 patients was collected by screening all currently treated patients with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and a question about other substances used. The inclusion criteria were AUDIT?>7 and/or reported use of other substances during the preceding 12 months. The Global Assessment of Functioning scale was used to assess functional outcomes during a 2-year follow-up. Information concerning treatment and patient characteristics was collected retrospectively. Results: Level of functioning remained stable among all study patients during follow-up. The mortality rate was not increased. Effective medication use was associated with improved functional outcomes. SUDs were underdiagnosed. A clinically diagnosed SUD seemed to have an impact on the regularity of appointments and the doses of prescribed medications. Conclusions: Given our results suggesting a stable level of functioning, patients with DD appear to be well managed within secondary psychiatric care. Attention should be paid to more precise diagnostics of SUDs and to effective use of medication.     

基于双气相配准定量CT在无症状吸烟者肺小气道病变中的应用

目的 采用CT双气相配准技术对无症状吸烟者的肺小气道病变进行定量分析,并探讨其与肺功能的相关性.资料与方法前瞻性收集延安大学附属医院2019年9月—2020年10月正常健康体检不吸烟者34例、低吸烟指数者28例和高吸烟指数者33例,行呼、吸双相CT扫描,将原始数据导入数字肺定量分析软件进行配准并小气道分析,得出CT定量...     

介入专科护士理论知识体系的构建

目的通过构建介入专科护士理论知识体系,为介入专科护士培养和理论课程设置提供参考。方法应用德尔菲法对16名专家进2轮函询,确立理论知识大纲要点。结果 2轮专家函询的积极性均为100%,专家咨询的权威系数为0.89,判断系数0.89,熟悉程度0.89,均>0.7。最终确定的理论知识体系包括5项一级指标,21项二级指标。结论介入专科护士理论知识体系专家意见集中,可信度高,能为介入专科护士理论课程培训的设置提供参考依据。