抑郁症患者与不明原因胸痛的关联性探讨

目的:分析抑郁症与不明原因胸痛间的关联性及其可能机制,为临床疾病的治疗提供参考依据。方法:纳入2012年6月至2014年5月四川省南充精神卫生中心精神科收治的不明原因胸痛患者35例,作为观察组,另选取35例来院进行常规体检的健康志愿者作为对照组,比较两组的抑郁量表评分、抑郁症发生率、血清C反应蛋白(CRP)、白细胞介素6(IL-6)、五羟色胺(5-HT)及外周血中的CD4+、CD8+含量。结果:与对照组比较,观察组的CRP、IL-6、5-HT、CD4+均低于对照组;且观察组的CD8+、抑郁症发生率(31.43%)、轻中度抑郁及重度抑郁患者比例均高于对照组水平,组间对比差异显著(P<0.05)。结论:抑郁症与不明原因胸痛存在一定相关性,推断可能与CRP、5-HT、IL-6等细胞因子有关,也可能与免疫抑制过程有关,在临床诊治中需引起重视。     

Predictivity of Plasma Prolactin Levels in Differentiating Epilepsy from Pseudoseizures: A Prospective Study

The predictivity of raised plasma prolactin (PRL) concentrations in differentiating seizure from syncopal attack was prospectively assessed in all patients consecutively admitted to the Clinica Neurologica of Brescia, Italy in a 12-month period who fulfilled the criteria for either a seizure or syncopal attack. Postictal plasma prolactin concentration (P1) was assessed as soon as possible after the event. Three further assessments were performed: P2 was sampled 1 h after P1, P3, and P4 were sampled in the morning for the next 2 days. Patients who had had a seizure showed significantly increased P1 concentrations, when P1 was sampled within 60 min of the attack. In seizure patients assessed >1 h after the event, P1 was not significantly different from either P2, P3, or P4. In patients who had had a syncopal attack, PRL concentration never increased. In patients assessed ≤60 min after the seizure, cutoff criterion of P1 exceeding by + 3 SD the mean calculated on P2, P3, and P4 yielded a positive predictive value of 89% and a negative predictive value of 61%. These findings confirm that plasma prolactin concentration is highly predictive of true epilepsy but barely predictive of pseudoseizures.     

Vasodepressor reactions after orthotopic cardiac transplantation: Relationship to reinnervation status

Ventricular vagal nerve endings are thought to trigger vasodepressor syncope. Reports of vasodepressor reactions associated with donor bradycardia after cardiac transplantation have led to speculation that vagal reinnervation occurs. We assessed reinnervation status in seven patients 23–36 months (median 24 months) post-transplantation. Heart rate responses to vagal manoeuvres (respiration, Valsalva) and sympathetic stimuli (exercise and injection of tyramine into the coronary artery supplying the sinus node) were measured. All patients underwent 60 min of 60° head-up tilt with foot plate support. During tilt four of the seven had vasodepressor reactions with a fall in mean arterial pressure of 20–90 mmHg. During vasodepression two patients had falls in donor heart rate of 13 and 40% relative to peak heart rate during tilt. These two patients had evidence of functional sympathetic reinnervation. By contrast the two patients without donor bradycardia during vasodepression had only limited or no evidence of sympathetic reinnervation. No patient had consistent evidence of parasympathetic reinnervation as judged by the heart rate response to vagal manoeuvres. Headup tilt can thus produce vasodepressor reactions with donor bradycardia after cardiac transplantation in the absence of consistent evidence of vagal reinnervation. Left ventricular nerve endings may not be the only mediators of tilt-induced vasodepressor reactions in man. Donor bradycardia during vasodepression may reflect sympathetic withdrawal and not vagal reinnervation.     

Changed Bcl:Bax ratio in endometrium of patients with unexplained infertility

Apoptosis has been shown to be an important regulator of endometrial function during the menstrual cycle and implantation. Recently, some possible implantation defects were identified in patients with unexplained infertility. In this study, we investigated the role of spontaneous apoptosis, which is regulated by death regulatory genes, such as Bcl-2, Bax, p53, and isoenzymes of nitric oxide synthases; eNOS and iNOS during the implantation window in women with unexplained infertility. Endometrial samples were evaluated from fertile (n=15) and unexplained-infertile women (n=15) during post-ovulatory 7th or 8th day of their menstrual cycles. Apoptotic cells were detected using the dUTP nick-end labelling assay and Bcl-2, Bax, p53, iNOS and eNOS were assessed immunohistochemically. Reduced apoptotic cells, weak immunoreactivity of p53 and strong immunoreactivity of Bcl-2 were observed in the unexplained-infertile group compared with the fertile group (p<0.001). Bax intensity was similar in both groups. While weak iNOS immunoreactivity was detected in both groups, moderately increased eNOS immunoreactivity was observed in infertile cases. Spontaneous apoptosis is reduced in the endometrium of unexplained-infertile women, and is associated with the changed Bcl-2:Bax ratio. This finding may be a contributing factor to defective implantation causing infertility in this group of patients.     

直立倾斜试验加硝酸甘油含化诊断血管迷走性晕厥的临床研究

目的评价硝酸甘油(NTG)含化加异丙肾上腺素倾斜试验(ITTT)诊断血管迷走性晕厥(VS)的价值.方法将72例VS患者和36例正常对照组随机均分成ITTT和ITTT+NTG组.结果ITTT+NTG组敏感性高于ITTT(93.1%和76%,P＜0.05)有显著性差异.结论ITTT+NTG含化是一种安全、耐受性好、敏感性高,特异性强的诊断VS的方法.     

Observations on the arterial baroreflex in neurally mediated vasodepressor syncope

The arterial baroreflex was studied in subjects who had recently had an episode of vasodepressor syncope. This was determined using 2–3 mcg/kg intravenous boluses of phenylephrine and assessing the bradycardic response. The values were measured in ms/mmHg and expressed as the angular coefficient of the regression line between the increase in R—R interval on the electrocardiograph and the systolic arterial pressure. In subjects examined immediately after the vasodepressor syncope episode the bradycardic response was much more marked than in controls (p < 0.01) and in the subjects themselves 6 months after the episode, provided that they were symptom-free (p < 0.01). It is concluded that in vasodepressor syncope there is a phase in which the baroreflex is highly sensitive and that this is due not to a lowering of the stimulation threshold but to a gain in the efferent arc, which explains a vagotonic response.     

Ondine's curse and neurally mediated syncope -- a new and important association

A 6-year-old boy with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome(Ondine's curse) presented with presyncope. Investigation revealeda diagnosis of neurally mediated syncope. This previously unreportedassociation provides strong evidence that autonomic dysfunctionis implicated in both these conditions.     

儿童不明原因晕厥的临床特征与直立倾斜试验关系的研究

目的　分析直立倾斜试验阳性与不明原因晕厥患儿临床特征的关系。方法　对 47例不明原因晕厥患儿 ,根据其直立倾斜试验的结果分为二组 :直立倾斜试验阳性组和阴性组 ,将其临床特征进行对比分析研究 ,并对其各个临床特征与直立倾斜试验的结果进行Logistic回归分析。 结果　不明原因晕厥患儿的性别、年龄、有无晕厥诱因及有无晕厥先兆对直立倾斜试验的结果有影响 ,根据Logistic回归分析 ,对直立倾斜试验结果有显著影响的因素依次为晕厥诱因、晕厥先兆和年龄。结论　对于发生于青春期女孩不明原因的晕厥 ,而患儿又有较明确的晕厥诱因和晕厥先兆者 ,其直立倾斜试验阳性的可能性较大 ,临床可诊断为血管迷走性晕厥。     

不孕妇女黄体期子宫内膜与血清中微量元素的关系

目的 :探讨不孕妇女黄体期子宫内膜与血清中微量元素的相互关系。方法 :应用原子吸收分光光度法测定19例不孕和 14例已育健康妇女黄体期子宫内膜及血清中锌、铜、铁、锰水平。结果 :对照组子宫内膜锌与子宫内膜厚度呈正相关 (P <0 .0 1) ,且子宫内膜平均厚度明显高于不孕组 (P <0 0 5 ) ;不孕组子宫内膜铜与血清铜呈正相关 (r =0 .76 78,P <0 0 1) ,而子宫内膜锰与血清锰呈负相关 (r= 0 .5 5 95 ,P <0 0 5 )。结论 :微量元素在体内的异常分布可能与原因不明性不孕有关