胰岛素抵抗与充血性心衰风险

背景:糖尿病和肥胖是已经确定的充血性心衰(CH F)危险因素,两者都与胰岛素抵抗有关。目的:观察胰岛素抵抗是否可预测CH F,以及其是否在肥胖和CH F之间建立联系。设计、地点和参与者:乌普萨拉成年男性纵向研究是在瑞典乌普萨拉进行的一项前瞻性、基于社区的观察性队列研究。对基线(1990—1995年)无CH F和瓣膜病的1187例老年(≥70年)男性进行调查,并随访至2002年底。结合已确定的危险因素(既往心肌梗死、高血压、糖尿病、心电图左室肥大、吸烟和血清胆固醇水平),利用Cox比例风险模型分析反映胰岛素敏感性的参数(包括正常血糖胰岛素钳夹…     

食管癌根治术后吻合口复发41例治疗

我们于1996-05／1999-10，收治的食管癌根治术后吻合口复发41例的治疗情况，报道如下。     

Optimisation of the CT h4S bioassay for detection of human interleukin-4 secreted by mononuclear cells stimulated by phytohaemaglutinin or by human leukocyte antigen mismatched mixed lymphocyte culture

Limiting dilution analysis has been used in the context of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation to determine anti-recipient interleukin-2 (IL-2) producing helper T lymphocyte precursor (HTLp) frequencies, which in several studies have been predictive of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Recently high anti-recipient IL-4 producing HTLp frequencies have been reported and associated with a decreased risk of GVHD. The aim of the present study was to define the optimal conditions for combined determination of IL-2 and IL-4 producing anti-recipient HTLp frequencies. We have optimised the CT.h4S bioassay with regards to specificity, sensitivity, detection limit, and reproducibility. We have found the optimal assay conditions to be 1 x 10 (4) CT.h4S cells/well deprived of IL-4 for 24 h and preincubated for 7 h followed by 18 h of incubation with tritiated methyl-thymidine. In this setting the CT.h4S bioassay detects 5 pg/ml of human recombinant IL-4 with no detection of IL-2 in concentrations below 500 pg/ml. We have found 72 h of culture optimal for detection of IL-2 and IL-4 produced by human mononuclear cells (MNC) in response to stimulation with phytohaemaglutinin and for detection of IL-2 in human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mismatched mixed leukocyte culture (MLC). An interindividual variation in cytokine accumulation was demonstrated for IL-4 but not for IL-2. With the use of 5x10(4) responder cells/well no IL-4 could be detected in HLA-mismatched MLC between days 1 and 16. The lack of IL-4 detection was not due to high amounts of soluble IL-4 receptor. With the use of 1x10(6) responder cells/well in HLA-mismatched MLC, we found limited IL-4 accumulation still increasing at day 12. We conclude that the CT.h4S bioassay is a reliable and specific method for quantification of IL-4 accumulation in cultures of human MNC. The difference in optimal timing for IL-2 (day 3) and IL-4 (>/=day 12) detection and evidence of very low IL-4 producing HTLp frequencies makes the relevance of a combined IL-2/IL-4 HTLp assay questionable.     

Autocrine motility factor (neuroleukin, phosphohexose isomerase) induces cell movement through 12-lipoxygenase-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation and serine dephosphorylation events

Autocrine motility factor (AMF) is one of the motility cytokines regulating tumor cell migration, therefore identification of the signaling pathway coupled with it has critical importance. Previous studies revealed several elements of this pathway predominated by lipoxygenase-PKC activations but the role for tyrosine kinases remained questionable. Motility cytokines frequently have mitogenic effect as well, producing activation of overlapping signaling pathways therefore we have used B16a melanoma cells as models where AMF has exclusive motility effect. Our studies revealed that in B16a cells AMF initiated rapid (1–5 min) activation of the protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) cascade inducing phosphorylation of 179, 125, 95 and 40/37 kD proteins which was mediated by upstream cyclo- and lipoxygenases. The phosphorylated proteins were localized to the cortical actin-stress fiber attachment zones in situ by confocal microscopy. On the other hand, AMF receptor activation induced significant decrease in overall serine-phosphorylation level of cellular proteins accompanied by serine phosphorylation of 200, 90, 78 and 65 kd proteins. The decrease in serine phosphorylation was independent of PTKs, PKC as well as cyclo- and lipoxygenases. However, AMF induced robust translocation of PKCα to the stress fibers and cortical actin suggesting a critical role for this kinase in the generation of the motility signal. Based on the significant decrease in serine phosphorylation after AMF stimulus in B16a cells we postulated the involvement of putative serine/threonine phosphatase(s) upstream lipoxygenase and activation of the protein tyrosine kinase cascade downstream cyclo- and lipoxygenase(s) in the previously identified autocrine motility signal. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

放疗加化疗综合治疗中晚期食管癌96例疗效观察

目的 :比较放疗加化疗综合治疗与单纯放疗对中晚期食管癌的疗效。方法 :对确诊的 96例中晚期食管癌患者随机分为放疗加化疗组 (化放组 )和单纯放疗组 (单放组 ) ,各 48例。放疗均采用 6MV X线体外照射肿瘤量 6 0～ 70Gy/30～ 35次 /6～ 7周 ,化放组在放疗第 1、5周各予 5 FU、顺铂联合化疗共 2个周期。结果 :化放组完全缓解 (CR)率 45 .8% ,总有效率 83 .3 % ,单放组CR率 2 5 .0 % ,总有效率 6 4.6 % (P <0 .0 5 )。化放组 1、2、3年生存率分别为 75 .0 %、5 2 .1%和39.6 % ,高于单放组的 5 2 .1%、31.2 %和 2 0 .8% (P <0 .0 5 )。结论 :放疗加化疗综合治疗中晚期食管癌的疗效优于单纯放疗     

后程适形放射治疗Ⅲ期非小细胞肺癌

目的评价三维适形放射治疗对Ⅲ期非小细胞肺癌患者局部控制率和生存率的影响。方法26例Ⅲ期非小细胞肺癌患者先采用6／15MV X线常规外放疗DT38-40Gy，后采用三维适形放疗2．5—3Gy／次．1次／d，累计量70—74GY。结果1、2年生存率分别为69．2％、46．1％，1、2年局部控制率分别为88．5％、76．4％。结论后程三维适形放射治疗可提高Ⅲ期非小细胞肺癌患者近期生存率及局部控制率，并未增加毒副反应。     

放疗加化疗治疗直肠癌术后复发58例临床观察

目的探讨后程适形放疗加化疗治疗术后复发直肠癌的疗效.方法 58例术后复发直肠癌随机分为后程适形放疗加化疗组（适形组）29例,普放加化疗组（对照组）29例.前程采用三野等中心照射40GY,后予适形推量至65～70GY,对照组后程用两斜野照射推量至DT55～60GY,两组均于放疗第一周予FP方案（5-Fu 500mg/m2 d1～5;DDP 30mg/m2 d1～3）化疗一周期,放疗结束后再化疗3～5周期.结果适形组和对照组3年局部控制率分别为65.5%、48.3%（P〈0.05）,适形组和对照组1、3年生存率分别为89.3%、58.6%和82.8%、41.3%（P〈0.05）,中位生存时间分别为30和21个月.毒副反应两组无统计学差异,患者均可耐受.结论后程适形放疗加化疗治疗术后复发直肠癌有较好疗效,毒副反应可耐受,值得推广使用.     

Inflammation, as measured by the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, is an independent predictor for the development of heart failure

OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to explore inflammation, measured as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), as a predictor for the development of heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND: In recent years, evidence of the importance of inflammation in the pathophysiology of HF has emerged, and various inflammatory markers have been found to predict future HF. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate is an inexpensive and easily accessible marker of systemic inflammation, but to this date it is unknown whether ESR predicts subsequent HF. METHODS: In a community-based prospective study of 2,314 middle-aged men free from HF, myocardial infarction, and valvular disease at baseline, ESR was analyzed in multivariable models together with established risk factors for HF (hypertension, diabetes, electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, smoking, obesity, and serum cholesterol) and hematocrit. RESULTS: A total of 282 men developed HF during a median follow-up time of 30 years. In Cox proportional hazards analyses, ESR was an independent predictor of HF (hazard ratio 1.46 for highest quartile vs. the lowest, 95% confidence interval 1.04 to 2.06). This observation remained significant when also adjusting for interim myocardial infarction during follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was a significant predictor of HF, independent of established risk factors for HF, and interim myocardial infarction after three decades of follow-up in a population-based sample of middle-aged men. Our findings indicate that inflammation occurs early in the process leading to HF and that ESR could be used to evaluate this process.     

Blood rheology in patients with diabetes mellitus

Blood rheology is now receiving increasing attention as an important potential contributory factor to diabetic angiopathy. This study was designed to provide evidence for and against early hemorheological abnormalities in diabetes mellitus (DM). For this purpose, blood viscosity, RBC aggregation, hematocrit, and plasma protein's levels of both fibrinogen and albumin were measured in 86 uncomplicated patients with DM (45 type 1 and 41 type 2). Patients with HbA1c < 7.5% were considered as having good glycemic control (GGC), while those with HbA1c > 8.5% as having poor glycemic control (PGC). Patients with type 1 DM showed normal blood viscosity at both shear rates high and low, while native hematocrit, fibrinogen, and RBC aggregation were significantly elevated and albumin significantly reduced when compared with healthy volunteers. Patients with type 2 DM showed more marked impairments associated with an increased low shear rate blood viscosity, when compared with patients with type 1 DM. Comparison between two subgroups of patients, both of which with type 1 DM and of similar disease duration of <5 yrs, with GGC or PGC showed that impaired blood rheology does depend on the quality of glycemic control. Differences were attenuated after a disease duration of >15 yrs. These findings suggest that early hemorheological impairments in patients with type 1 DM are dependent upon the glycemic control. In contrast, hemorheological impairments appear to be inevitable after a mean disease duration of 15 yrs even if there is a GGC. Aggravation of hemorheological abnormalities in patients with type 2 DM might depend upon the hemorheological effects of other metabolic abnormalities related to insulin resistance rather than the quality of glycemic control.     

Evaluation of interstitial lung disease in mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)

OBJECTIVE: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) may be a characteristic, often serious, manifestation of mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD). In this retrospective study, the frequency and clinical picture of ILD were determined in patients with MCTD using two diagnostic tests: high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and inhaled aerosol clearance times of (99m)Tc-labelled diethylene-triamine pentaacetate ((99m)Tc-DTPA). In addition, pulmonary function, effects of therapy and a variety of immunoserological markers were also assessed. METHODS: One hundred and forty-four consecutive patients with MCTD were selected from the clinic, irrespective of the presence or absence of ILD. All patients underwent a detailed clinical assessment, chest HRCT scanning, chest radiography, inhaled aerosol of (99m)Tc-DTPA clearance times, and all pulmonary function tests. Patients who had active ILD received corticosteroid (CS) or CS in combination with cyclophosphamide (CPH). All investigations were repeated after 6 months of immunosuppressive therapy. RESULTS: Ninety-six out of 144 MCTD patients (66.6%) had active ILD, 75 of this group (78.1%) showed ground glass opacity, 21 patients (21.8%) ground glass opacity with mild fibrosis with HRCT. Forty-five patients with active ILD received 2 mg/kg/day CS for 6-8 weeks alone and 51 patients CS in combination with CPH (2 mg/kg/day). Six months later, after therapy, 67 out of 96 MCTD patients with ILD (69.8%) showed a negative HRCT pattern, ground glass opacity with mild fibrosis developed in 15 patients (15.6%), and fibrosis was detected in 13 patients (13.5%). Only one patient showed subpleural honeycombing. (99m)Tc-DTPA was rapid in all 96 MCTD patients with active ILD (28.7 +/- 8.2 min, normal value >40 min). After therapy the (99m)Tc-DTPA was normalized, 79 out of 96 patients (82.3%). Carbon monoxide diffusion capacity (DLCO) was reduced in 33 out of 96 MCTD patients with active ILD (34.3%), while there were no significant differences in the pulmonary function tests between the active versus inactive stage of ILD or versus patients without ILD. The sera of 96 MCTD patients with active ILD contained a high level of immune complexes (ICs), and the total haemolytic complement levels (CH50/ml U) decreased. After 6 months of therapy, the IC levels decreased and CH50/ml levels normalized (MCTD patients before and after active ILD: IC optical density = 355 +/- 227 vs 206 +/- 92, P<0.001; CH50/ml, 38.0 +/- 12.6 U vs 64.3 +/- 13.0 U, P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: HRCT is the gold standard for diagnosis of ILD. However, we used another method, (99m)Tc-DTPA, in order to compare this technique with HRCT. This latter technique has not been studied previously in MCTD. The elevated levels of IC and increased complement consumption indicated that IC-mediated alveolocapillary membrane damage and tissue injury might play a role in the pathogenesis of ILD in MCTD.