血脂水平与动脉瘤性蛛网膜下腔出血后迟发性脑缺血的相关性

目的 探讨血脂水平与动脉瘤性蛛网膜下腔出血(aSAH)后迟发性脑缺血（DCI）的相关性。方法 回顾性分析2014年1月至2015年12月收治的74例aSAH的临床资料,采用多因素Logistic回归分析检验性别、年龄、动脉瘤位置、动脉瘤大小、世界神经外科医师联盟（WFNS）分级、改良Fisher分级、Hunt-Hess分级、治疗方式、总甘油三脂、总胆固醇、高密度脂蛋白胆固醇、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇、脂蛋白(a)、载脂蛋白A、载脂蛋白B等因素与DCI的关系。结果 74例中,65例入院后检测血脂,20例出现DCI,45例未出现DCI,aSAH后DCI的发生率为30.8%。多因素Logistic回归分析显示高甘油三酯及改良Fisher分级是aSAH后DCI发生的独立危险因素。结论 及时检测aSAH患者的血脂水平和对患者进行改良Fisher分级对DCI的诊断治疗均有参考价值。     

Outcomes in patients with Gleason score 8-10 prostate cancer: relation to preoperative PSA level

Study Type – Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 4 What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? High‐grade prostate cancers are associated with poor disease‐specific outcomes. A proportion of these tumours produce little PSA. This study demonstrates that among Gleason 8–10 prostate cancers, some of the worst survival outcomes are associated with the lowest PSA levels.

OBJECTIVE

• ? To assess outcomes of patients with Gleason score 8–10 prostate cancer (CaP) with a low (≤2.5 ng/mL) vs higher preoperative serum PSA levels.

PATIENTS AND METHODS

• ? From 1983 to 2003, 5544 patients underwent open radical prostatectomy, of whom 354 had a Gleason 8–10 tumour in the prostatectomy specimen.
• ? Patients were stratified according to preoperative PSA level into four strata: ≤2.5 ng/mL (n= 31), 2.6–4 ng/mL (n= 31), 4.1–10 ng/mL (n= 174), and >10 ng/mL (n= 118).
• ? We compared biochemical progression‐free survival (PFS), metastasis‐free survival (MFS), and cancer‐specific survival (CSS) as a function of preoperative PSA level.

RESULTS

• ? Patients with PSA level ≤2.5 ng/mL were more likely to have seminal vesicle invasion (P= 0.003).
• ? On Kaplan–Meier survival analysis, patients with a PSA level ≤2.5 ng/mL had proportionately worse outcomes than their counterparts with higher PSA levels.
• ? The 7‐year PFS in the PSA ≤2.5 ng/mL stratum was lower than those of the PSA 2.6–4 ng/mL and 4–10 ng/mL strata (36% vs 50 and 42%, respectively); however, the lowest 7‐year PFS was found in those with a PSA level >10 ng/mL (32%, P= 0.02).
• ? Gleason score 8–10 tumours with a PSA level ≤2.5 ng/mL also tended to have the lowest 7‐year MFS (75, 93, 89 and 92% for PSA level ≤2.5, 2.6–4, 4.1–10 and >10 ng/mL, respectively, P= 0.2) and CSS (81, 100, 94 and 90% for PSA level ≤2.5, 2.6–4, 4.1–10 and >10 ng/mL, respectively, P= 0.3), although these differences were not statistically significant.
• ? In the subset with palpable disease, Gleason grade 8–10 disease with PSA level ≤2.5 ng/mL also was associated with a worse prognosis.

CONCLUSIONS

• ? In patients with Gleason grade 8–10 disease, a proportion of these tumours are so poorly differentiated that they produce relatively little PSA.
• ? Patients with high‐grade, low‐PSA tumours had less favourable outcomes than many of those with higher PSA levels.

     

Improvement in Smallholder Farmer Knowledge of Cattle Production,Health and Biosecurity in Southern Cambodia between 2008 and 2010

Farmer knowledge surveys were conducted in 2008 and 2010 in Cambodia to evaluate the impact of a research project studying interventions that can improve cattle production and health, including biosecurity and practices relating to risks of transmission of transboundary diseases. The project hypothesis is that by increasing the value of smallholder‐owned large ruminants through nutritional interventions and improved marketing, knowledge‐based interventions including risk management for infectious diseases such as foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) can be implemented into a more sustainable pathway for rural development. Between 2008 and 2010, significant improvements in farmer knowledge and attitudes were recorded in three villages in three provinces of southern Cambodia. This was achieved through participatory ‘applied field research’, ‘on the job’ training plus ‘formal’ training programmes. No cases of FMD were recorded during the study period in the ‘high‐intervention’ (HI) villages despite the common occurrence of the disease in a nearby ‘low‐intervention’ and many other villages in the three provinces. Whilst it is likely that protection of these villages from FMD infection was from increasing the herd immunity by vaccination, it could also have been partly because of a decrease in risk behaviours by farmers as a result of their increasing knowledge of biosecurity. The research indicates that smallholder farmers are motivated by nutritional interventions that improve the value of their cattle ‘bank’ and offer better marketing opportunities. This provides a more receptive environment for introduction of disease risk management for infectious and other production limiting diseases, best implemented for smallholder farmers in Cambodia by intensive training programmes. In lieu of a widespread public awareness programme to deliver mass education of smallholder farmers in disease prevention and biosecurity, livestock development projects in South‐East Asia should be encouraged to include training in disease risk management as an important intervention if the current momentum for trade in large ruminant livestock and large ruminant meat is to continue to progress and contribute to addressing global food security concerns.     

我国卫生健康教育发展历程与全民健康素养

梳理我国卫生健康教育事业的发展历程,重点从政策、规划,专业教育宣教机构,学术期刊和科普出版物等方面加以介绍,阐述公众对健康素养的认知以及我国对提升全民健康素养的重视和发展。提出健康教育工作的全面推进、全民健康素养水平的提升,有助于促进我国人口健康事业及经济社会的可持续发展。     

急性自发性脑出血患者血清HA水平的表达情况及临床意义

目的 探讨急性自发性脑出血（ICH）患者血清HA水平的表达情况及临床意义。 方法 选取2016年4月～2017年8月我院收治的120例ICH患者为研究对象,并选取同期体检的102例健康者为对照组。采用改良Rankin 量表对ICH患者出院后3个月情况进行评分,根据评分分为预后良好者（≤2分）和预后不良者(＞2分),观察并分析患者透明质酸（HA）水平表达及临床意义。结果 预后良好者的年龄、血肿体积均明显低于预后不良者,差异有统计学意义（均P＜0.05）。入院时,ICH组患者HA水平明显高于对照组,差异有统计学意义（P＜0.05）。入院时,预后良好者美国国立卫生研究院卒中量表（NIHSS）评分及HA水平均明显低于预后不良者,且NIHSS评分与HA表达水平呈正相关（r=0.573,均P＜0.05）;治疗3个月后,mRS评分与HA表达水平亦呈正相关（r=0.757,P＜0.05）。单因素表示,预后良好者的年龄、血肿体积、HA水平、NIHSS评分及mRS评分与预后不良者比较,差异有统计学意义（P＜0.05）。Logistic多因素回归分析表示,年龄、血肿体积、HA水平、NIHSS评分及mRS评分与ICH患者预后不良相关。结论 ICH患者血清HA水平表达异常升高,病情严重,预后较差。因此,入院时血清HA水平的高表达可作为预后不良的预测因素。     

维持性血液透析患者自我管理与运动自我效能及运动水平的相关性

目的 探讨维持性血液透析（MHD）患者自我管理水平与运动自我效能及运动水平的相关性。方法 采用横断面调查方式,对我院2018年1月～2018年5月的199例MHD患者,采用自行设计的一般资料调查表、自我管理量表、运动自我效能量表（ESE）及运动水平量表进行调查,并使用SPSS 17.0软件进行统计分析。结果 MHD患者自我管理与运动自我效能之间呈正相关（r=0.419,P＜0.05）;自我管理与运动水平亦呈正相关（r=0.348,P＜0.05）。结论 MHD患者自我管理与运动自我效能及运动水平息息相关,应有效干预MHD患者自我管理与运动自我效能及运动水平,进而提高MHD患者的临床疗效。     

Effects of unisegmental disc compression on adjacent segments: an in vivo animal model

It is controversial whether fusion of discs in the spine leads to increased degeneration on the remaining discs or whether the degenerative changes are merely a part of the inevitable natural history process. To determine the effects of unisegmental compression and subsequent recovery on adjacent segments, we studied histology, radiology and intradiscal pressure using an in vivo rabbit model. Fifteen New Zealand rabbits were divided in to three groups of five. In the first group, the intervertebral disc L4–L5 of the lumbar spine was axially loaded for 28 days with an external loading device. In the second group, the intervertebral disc was compressed for 28 days and allowed to recover for an equal amount of time, with the loading device removed. Five animals underwent a sham operation, in which the external loading device was situated, but their discs remained unloaded for 28 days. The intradiscal pressure was determined in the loaded discs as well as in the cranial and caudal adjacent discs. Lateral radiographs were taken from each subjected intervertebral disc with adjacent vertebral bodies and the cranial and caudal adjacent segments. The compressed discs showed lower intradiscal pressure in comparison with the control group, which remained unloaded. In the cranial and caudal discs adjacent to the loaded discs the average intradiscal pressure was similar to the unloaded controls. The loaded discs demonstrated a significant decrease in disc space. No discs adjacent to the loaded discs changed in height. The lamellar architecture of the inner, middle, and outer annulus became more disorganized in the loaded discs. The nucleus pulposus showed increase of mucoid degeneration and increased cell death. Intervertebral discs from the control group and the adjacent discs to the compressed discs maintained their normal morphology. This study shows that mechanical loading of discs in the spine can cause rapid degeneration. Adjacent discs, however, did not change in terms of radiology, intradiscal pressure, or histology.     

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) 2022 Expert Consensus Document: The use of mechanical circulatory support in lung transplantation

ObjectiveThe use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in lung transplantation has been steadily increasing over the prior decade, with evolving strategies for incorporating support in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative settings. There is significant practice variability in the use of these techniques, however, and relatively limited data to help establish institutional protocols. The objective of the AATS Clinical Practice Standards Committee (CPSC) expert panel was to review the existing literature and establish recommendations about the use of MCS before, during, and after lung transplantation.MethodsThe AATS CPSC assembled an expert panel of 16 lung transplantation physicians who developed a consensus document of recommendations. The panel was broken into subgroups focused on preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative support, and each subgroup performed a focused literature review. These subgroups formulated recommendation statements for each subtopic, which were evaluated by the entire group. The statements were then developed via discussion among the panel and refined until consensus was achieved on each statement.ResultsThe expert panel achieved consensus on 36 recommendations for how and when to use MCS in lung transplantation. These recommendations included the use of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a bridging strategy in the preoperative setting, a preference for central veno-arterial ECMO over traditional cardiopulmonary bypass during the transplantation procedure, and the benefit of supporting selected patients with MCS postoperatively.ConclusionsAchieving optimal results in lung transplantation requires the use of a wide range of strategies. MCS provides an important mechanism for helping these critically ill patients through the peritransplantation period. Despite the complex nature of the decision making process in the treatment of these patients, the expert panel was able to achieve consensus on 36 recommendations. These recommendations should provide guidance for professionals involved in the care of end-stage lung disease patients considered for transplantation.     

Similarities in Skeletal Muscle Strength and Exercise Capacity Between Renal Transplant and Hemodialysis Patients

Exercise intolerance is common in hemodialysis (HD) and renal transplant (RTx) patients. Aim of the study was to assess to what extent exercise capacity and skeletal muscle strength of RTx patients differ from HD patients and healthy controls and to elucidate potential determinants of exercise capacity in RTx patients. Exercise capacity, muscle strength, lean body mass (LBM) and physical activity level (PAL) were measured by cycle-ergometry, isokinetic dynamometry, DEXA and Baecke Questionnaire, respectively, in 35 RTx, 16 HD and 21 controls. VO2peak and muscle strength of the RTx patients were significantly lower compared to controls (p<0.01), but not different compared to HD patients. In RTx patients, strength (p<0.001), PAL (p=0.001) and age (p=0.045) were significant predictors of VO2peak. Muscle strength was related to LBM (p=0.001) and age (p=0.001), whereas gender (p<0.001) and renal function (p=0.01) turned out to be significant predictors of LBM. No effects of corticosteroids were observed. Exercise capacity and muscle strength seem equally reduced in RTx and HD patients compared to controls. In RTx patients, muscle strength and PAL are highly related to exercise capacity. Renal function appears to be a significant predictor of LBM, and through the LBM, of muscle strength and exercise capacity.     

Helium-neon laser in viability of random skin flap in rats

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the role of helium-neon (He-Ne) laser random skin flap viability in rats. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS: Experimentally controlled randomized study. Forty-eight Wistar-EPM rats were used, weighed, and divided into 4 groups with 12 rats each. The random skin flap was performed measuring 10 x 4 cm, with a plastic sheet interposed between the flap and the donor site. The Group 1 (control) underwent sham irradiation with He-Ne laser. The Group 2 was submitted to laser irradiation, using the punctual contact technique on the skin flap surface. The Group 3 was submitted to laser irradiation surrounding the skin flap, and the Group 4 was submitted to laser irradiation both on the skin flap surface and around it. The experimental groups were submitted to He-Ne laser irradiation with 3 J/cm(2) energy density immediately after the surgery and for the four subsequent days. The percentage of necrotic area of the four groups was calculated at the 7th post-operative day, through a paper-template method. RESULTS: Group 1 reached an average necrotic area of 48.86%; Group 2, 38.67%; Group 3, 35.34%; and Group 4, 22.61%. After the statistic analysis, results showed that all experimental groups reached statistically significant values when compared to the control group, and Group 4 was the best one, when compared to all groups of this study (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: The He-Ne laser irradiation was efficient to increase random skin flap viability in rats.