肾癌伴下腔静脉癌栓的诊断及治疗（附11例报告）

报告１１例肾细胞癌伴下腔静脉癌栓患者，男９例，女２例；右侧８例，左侧３例。临床症状：血尿９例，腹部肿物２例，仅１例出现下肢水肿、腹壁浅静脉扩张。全部病人均经ＣＴ扫描或ＣＴ和ＭＲＩ检查明确诊断。１０例经上腹正中或胸腹联合切口取出癌栓连同患肾一并切除。５例术前无其它部位转移者术后平均存活５年２个月，１例术后２个月死亡，２例术前肾蒂淋巴结及肾周脂肪侵犯者中１例存活２年５个月死于非肿瘤疾病，１例目前已存活３年１个月尚在，２例失访。本组腔静脉癌栓发生率占同期肾癌病人的２．７％。本组ＣＴ与ＭＲＩ相结合应用诊断符合率为９８０％。     

碘油与不同栓塞剂组合对子宫肌瘤疗效的影响

目的研究以碘油为主组合不同栓塞剂型治疗子宫肌瘤的疗效。方法36例子宫肌瘤患者,随机分为3组,采用与碘油不同栓塞剂组合,行双侧子宫动脉栓塞(UAE)治疗。Ⅰ组碘油 无水乙醇;Ⅱ组碘油 平阳霉素;Ⅲ组碘油 平阳霉素 无水乙醇 明胶海绵粒。术后随访观察月经恢复情况、瘤体大小、有无并发症发生等。结果Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ3组UAE治疗后,子宫肌瘤缩小>50%分别为3、4、8例,Ⅰ、Ⅱ组间无显著性差异(P>0.05);Ⅰ、Ⅱ组与Ⅲ3组之间有显著性差异(P<0.05);Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ3组间并发症发生率无统计学差异(P>0.05)。结论碘油与无水乙醇、平阳霉素、明胶海绵粒联合栓塞子宫肌瘤其疗效优于其它组合剂型。     

ALPPS与采用不同栓塞材料PVE对肝再生及手术切除率影响研究

目的 比较不同栓塞材料的门静脉栓塞术（PVE）与联合肝脏分隔和门静脉结扎的二步肝切除术（ALPPS）对剩余肝体积（FLR）增长速率的影响,比较各组FLR的增长速率,二期手术切除率、术中数据和术后并发症。方法 采用单中心、前瞻性、非随机对照的对比研究。2014年11月至2019年12月,海军军医大学第三附属医院共126例因FLR不足导致无法切除的肝细胞癌（HCC）或肝内胆管癌（ICC）病人,将其分为4组：ALPPS组及分别采用氰基丙烯酸正丁酯（NBCA）、微球、明胶海绵作为栓塞材料的PVE组。主要终点为FLR增长速率和二期手术切除率。结果 各组的手术切除例数及二期手术切除率分别为：ALPPS组38例（99.4%）,NBCA组32例（76.2%）,明胶海绵组20例（60.6%）,微球组10例（83.3%）。ALPPS组、NBCA组、微球组的FLR增长速率分别为15.1 mL/d,10.0 mL/d和 8.5 mL/d,均高于明胶海绵组（3.7 mL/d）。结论 采用NBCA及微球作为栓塞材料的PVE导致FLR增长速率低于ALPPS,两种栓塞材料的PVE二期手术切除率相当。使用NBCA作为栓塞材料的PVE其FLR增长速率高于微球,且这两种栓塞材料的栓塞效果均优于明胶海绵。     

Recent advances in the treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma: portal vein embolization

The clinical application of portal vein embolization (PVE) has contributed to improving the postoperative outcome of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The enlarged nonembolized lobe after PVE protects the patient from postoperative hepatic failure, due to the increased functional reserve, and shortens the hospital stay. Although numerous reports have shown beneficial effects of PVE on postoperative outcome after extended hepatectomy, no randomized controlled study has been performed so far. It is urgent to establish a “gold standard” of PVE, because the indications, approach to the portal vein, types of embolic materials, and methods used to evaluate the function of the future liver remnant are variable among institutions. The indications and procedures of PVE for hilar cholangiocarcinoma may be different from those for hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal metastasis, because, in many patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma, biliary cancer is associated with biliary obstruction and cholangitis. This review article summarizes the contribution of PVE to the outcome of postoperative management in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma needing extended hepatectomy. We also describe our PVE procedure, which has been established from our experience of more than 240 cases of biliary cancer. Furthermore, the drawbacks of PVE, which may reduce the pool of candidates for surgery, are also discussed.     

Ischemic Stroke With Cerebral Protection System During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to evaluate in-hospital outcomes with use of the Sentinel cerebral protection system (CPS) in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).BackgroundThe role of the Sentinel CPS in preventing clinical ischemic stroke has been controversial.MethodsThe Nationwide Inpatient Sample database from the last three quarters of 2017, after the approval of the Sentinel CPS device, was queried to identify hospitalizations for TAVR. A 1:2 propensity score–matched analysis to compare in-hospital outcomes with versus without use of the CPS. The primary outcome was the occurrence of ischemic strokes.ResultsA total of 36,220 weighted discharges of patients who underwent TAVR (525 with the CPS and 35,695 without) were identified. The overall percentages of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes were 2.4% and 0.2%, respectively. After propensity score matching (525 CPS, 1,050 no CPS), the risk for ischemic stroke was lower with use of the CPS (1 % vs. 3.8%, odd ratio [OR]: 0.243 (95% confidence interval: 0.095 to 0.619); p = 0.003). The cost of the index hospitalization was higher with use of the CPS ($47,783 vs. $44,578; p = 0.002). In multivariate regression analysis, use of the CPS was independently associated with a lower risk for ischemic stroke (OR: 0.380; 95% confidence interval: 0.157 to 0.992; p = 0.032).ConclusionsUse of the Sentinel CPS in patients undergoing TAVR is associated with a lower incidence of ischemic stroke and in-hospital mortality, without an increased risk for procedural complications but with an increased cost of the index hospitalization.     

Embolic protection device use and its association with procedural safety and long‐term outcomes following saphenous vein graft intervention: An analysis from the British Columbia Cardiac registry

• Coronary stents are commonly deployed using high pressure. However, the duration time of balloon inflation during deployment is still to be determined.
• Vallurupalli and coworkers, in this issue of CCI, show that the stent system takes an average of 33 sec to “accommodate” its pressure during in vitro deployment. In patients, the mean stent inflation time to achieve pressure stability was 104 seconds, ranging from 30 to 380 sec.
• These results challenge a rapid inflation/deflation approach for stent deployment. It is suggested that the duration of the inflation might be individualized, in a case‐by‐case approach.
• However, the findings must be interpreted with caution, as they cannot be directly extrapolated to more diverse clinical, angiographic, and interventional scenarios.