Objective To investigate the survival of patients with painful chronic panereatitis and evaluate the risk factors for mortality in these patients.Methods This was a historical cohort study,subjects ≥18 yr with painful chronic pancreatitis who were treated in our center from Feb.1997 to July 2007 were enrolled.A life-table method was used to estimate the probability of the cumulative survival rate.COX proportional-hazards model was used for multivariate analysis.Results Follow-up data were obtained from 346 patients (87.2%) with the ratio of male/female was 2.4:1.The age of first admission and first symptom onset was (47±14)years and (43±15 ) years.The mean follow-up period was ( 34.3±27.1 ) months.Alcoholic origin accounted for 22.2% of all the patients,while biliary origin was 26.0%.The overall mortality rate was 9.8% (34/346),which happened (62.5±61.1 ) months after abdominal pain was present.The causes of mortality included pancreatic cancer and cancers of other sites.The cumulative survival rate estimated at 2 years was 96.3%,at 5 years 93.6% and at 10 years 86.4%.COX proportional-hazards model suggested age at onset (≥51 years),no improvement of abdominal pain or increased frequency of pain,active smoking,and no diarrhea were associated with increased mortality,and the corresponding hazard rates (HR) were 3.4,3.5,4.2,2.8 and 17.7,respectively.Conclusions The mortality rate of painful chronic panereatitis in China was lower than those reported outside China.The main cause of mortality was pancreatic cancer.Great caution shall be placed on patients with age at onset ≥51 yr,no improvement of abdominal pain,increased frequency of pain,active smoking and no diarrhea.

Objective To investigate the possible role of plasma leptin and total cholesterol in the pathophysiology of attempted suicide in depressive episode patients. Methods The subjects were 25 depressive episode patients who had recently attempted suicide and 30 depressive episode patients without suicide attempt. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-24 items ( HAMD24 ), Beck Helpless Rating Scale (BHS) and Self-rating Idea of Suicide Scale (SIOSS) were used to evaluate the severity of symptoms. In addition, 32 individuals who took part in health examination were selected as health control group. Body height and weight were measured to get body mass index (BMI) of all objects, and plasma leptin and total cholesterol were measured by venous blood before taking pill. Results (1)HAMD score , BHS score and SIOSS score in patients with attempted suicide were higher than patients without suicide (P ＜ 0.01 ). (2) The total cholesterol and plasma leptin in patients with attempted suicide ( (3.3 ±0.9)mmol/L, (6.1 ±3.7)μg/L)were lower than that in patients without suicide( (3.6± 1.2)mmol/L, (9.4 ± 4.4)μg/L; P ＜ 0.05 ～ 0. 0l ), while total cholesterol and leptin in patients without suicide attempt ( (3.6 ± 1.2 ) mmol/L, ( 9.4 ± 4.4 ) μg/L) were lower than that in normal controls ( ( 4.8 ± 0.9 )mmol/L, ( 13.4 ± 6.7 ) μg/L; P ＜ 0.05 ～ 0.01 ). (3) Plasma leptin and total cholesterol of all patients were positively correlated with BMI(P＜0.01 ). Moreover, plasma leptin and total cholesterol in patients with attempted suicide and patients without attempted suicide were inversely positively correlated with HAMD score , BHS score and SIOSS score. Plasma leptin was significantly positively correlated with total cholesterol in patients with attempted suicide and patients without suicide, but there was no significant difference in normal controls(P＞ 0. 05). Conclusion The results suggest that decreased plasma leptin is related to the pathophysiology of attempted suicide in depressive episode patients.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the value of tissue mitral annular displacement (TMAD) in the assessment of left ventricular long axis systolic function and the relationship of obese degree with left ventricular long axis systolic function in patients with abdominal obesity.MethodsThirty-eight abdominal obesity cases and thirty-four healthy cases were investigated using echocardiography.The images of apical four-chamber view and apical two-chamber view were obtained,systolic mitral annular displacement (MADs),mid-point of mitral annular displacement(MAD-midpt),mid-point of mitral annular normalized displacement(MAND-midpt) and mid-point of mitral annular biplanar normalized displacement(MABNDmidpt) were measured by the technique of TMAD.Their characteristics between patients with abdominal obesity and healthy group were compared,and the relationship of waist-hip ratio(WHR) and related indexes of MAD were analyzed.ResultsIn abdominal obesity group,the MADs at the four site were significantly decreased compared with control group (P＜0.001,respectively),the MAD-midpt and MAND-midpt of apical four-chamber view and apical two-chamber view were significantly decreased compared with control group (P＜0.001,respectively).The WHR related with MABND-midpt independently by the analysis of partial correlation(r=-0.697,P=0.000).ConclusionsThe left ventricular long axis systolic function were damaged in patients with abdominal obesity.The technique of TMAD could quantitatively assess the left ventricular long axis systolic function in patients with abdominal obesity.

Objective:To explore the role of interleukin (IL)-9 and other T helper (Th) cell-related cytokines in the pathogenesis of acute anterior uveitis.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted.Thirty-six patients (36 eyes) with acute anterior uveitis who were treated at Gansu Provincial Hospital from May 2018 to May 2019 and 40 matched healthy subjects (40 eyes) who had no eye diseases or systemic diseases in the same period were enrolled as the acute anterior uveitis group and healthy control group, respectively.The disease severity of the subjects in the acute anterior uveitis group was graded and the subjects were divided into mild, moderate and severe groups according to the grading.Serum of all subjects was collected to determine the concentration of serum IL-9, IL-17, transforming growth factor-β 1 (TGF-β 1), interferon-γ (IFN-γ), IL-4, IL-35 and IL-22 by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method.Spearman rank correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between IL-9 concentration and other Th cell-related cytokines.This study adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki.The study protocol was approved by an Ethics Committee of Gansu Provincial Hospital (No.2019-204). Written informed consent was obtained from each subject prior to any medical examination. Results:The serum levels of IL-9, IFN-γ, IL-4, TGF-β 1, IL-35 and IL-22 in the acute anterior uveitis group were significantly higher than those in the healthy control group, and the differences were statistically significant (all at P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in the concentration of IL-17 between the two groups ( U=704.500, P=0.872). The IL-9 concentration of patients with acute anterior uveitis in the mild, moderate and severe groups was 57.24 (47.47, 65.10), 71.68 (67.55, 78.91) and 114.01 (74.78, 139.30) ng/L, respectively, and the overall difference was statistically significant ( Z=8.766, P=0.012), and the IL-9 concentration of the mild group and the moderate group was significantly lower than that of the severe group (both at P<0.05). The concentration of IL-9 in the patients with acute anterior uveitis was positively correlated with the concentration of IL-17, TGF-β 1 and IL-35 ( rs=0.449, 0.517, 0.400; all at P<0.05), and no significant correlations were found between the concentration of IL-9 and the concentration of IFN-γ, IL-4 and IL-22 ( rs=0.293, 0.286, 0.316; all at P>0.05). Conclusions:IL-9 plays a role in promoting the immune inflammatory response in the occurrence and development of acute anterior uveitis, and it is closely related to Th17 and Treg cell-related cytokines (TGF-β 1, IL-35).

Objective:To characterize the histopathological subtypes and their clinicopathological parameters of gender and onset age by common, rare and sparse primary esophageal malignant tumors (PEMT).Methods:A total of 272 437 patients with PEMT were enrolled in this study, and all of the patients were received radical surgery. The clinicopathological information of the patients was obtained from the database established by the State Key Laboratory of Esophageal Cancer Prevention & Treatment from September 1973 to December 2020, which included the clinical treatment, pathological diagnosis and follow-up information of esophagus and gastric cardia cancers. All patients were diagnosed and classified by the criteria of esophageal tumor histopathological diagnosis and classification (2019) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The esophageal tumors, which were not included in the WHO classification, were analyzed separately according to the postoperative pathological diagnosis. The χ 2 test was performed by the SPSS 25.0 software on count data, and the test standard α=0.05. Results:A total of 32 histopathological types were identified in the enrolled PEMT patients, of which 10 subtypes were not included in the WHO classification. According to the frequency, PEMT were divided into common (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, ESCC, accounting for 97.1%), rare (esophageal adenocarcinoma, EAC, accounting for 2.3%) and sparse (mainly esophageal small cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, etc., accounting for 0.6%). All the common, rare, and sparse types occurred predominantly in male patients, and the gender difference of rare type was most significant (EAC, male∶ female, 2.67∶1), followed with common type (ESCC, male∶ female, 1.78∶1) and sparse type (male∶ female, 1.71∶1). The common type (ESCC) mainly occurred in the middle thoracic segment (65.2%), while the rare type (EAC) mainly occurred in the lower thoracic segment (56.8%). Among the sparse type, malignant melanoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma were both predominantly located in the lower thoracic segment (51.7%, 66.7%), and the others were mainly in the middle thoracic segment.Conclusion:ESCC is the most common type among the 32 histopathological types of PEMT, followed by EAC as the rare type, and esophageal small cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma as the major sparse type, and all of which are mainly occur in male patients. The common type of ESCC mainly occur in the middle thoracic segment, while the rare type of EAC mainly in the lower thoracic segment. The mainly sparse type of malignant melanoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma predominately occur in the lower thoracic segment, and the remaining sparse types mainly occur in the middle thoracic segment.