Objective To examine the impact of chronic diseases and blood biomarkers on daily living activities of hospitalized nonagenarians.Methods We used data from 161 nonagenarians who had been admitted to the Department of Internal Medicine from January to December 2014.Patients were divided into three groups:the mild dependence group,the moderate dependence group and the severe dependence group,based on the Barthel Index.Data were collected from patients' medical records.Differences in chronic disease characteristics and biomarkers between the three groups were compared and multiple regression and correlation analysis was also carried out.Results Compared with the mild independence group,patients in the severe dependence group were older(92.6 ± 2.6 vs.91.2 ±1.7 years,P＜ 0.05)and had lower levels of sodium(138.0 ± 5.0 vs.140.9 ± 3.7 mmol/L),albumin(35.4 ± 4.2 vs.39.2 ± 4.3 g/L),prealbumin,total cholesterol,low density lipoprotein cholesterol,and total iron binding (34.8 ± 7.9 vs.43.2 ± 7.4 mmol/L) respectively,P＜ 0.01 or 0.05),and higher levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein [22.0 (31.6) vs.2.6 (6.6) g/L,P＜ 0.01].Multivariate linear regression showed that albumin (β=0.23,P =0.011),sodium (β=0.21,P=0.003),total iron biding capacity(β=0.26,P=0.003),and age (β=-0.15,P =0.036) were significantly associated with daily living activities.Conclusions Higher proportions of hospitalized nonagenarians suffer multiple diseases.Activities of daily living are significantly associated with albumin,total iron biding capacity,and sodium.While the number of diseases has no influence on activities of daily living,good nutritional status and electrolyte balance are very important to nonagenarians.

Objective:To investigate the significance of multicolor flow cytometry (MFC) monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) in the course of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) after CD19-chimeric antigen receptor(CAR)-T cell immunotherapy for patients with refractory, relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (r/r B-ALL).Methods:37 patients with r/r B-ALL admitted to Hebei Yanda Lu Daopei Hospital from January to July 2019, aged 15 (6, 19) years old, including 24 males and 13 females, were treated with CD19-CAR-T cell immunotherapy bridging allo-HSCT. MFC with cytoplasmic CD79a antibody to set up B-cell gates was used to monitor patients′ bone marrow (BM), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and tissue samples on day 0 (prior to the CAR-T cell immunotherapy), day 15, day 28 post CAR-T cell immunotherapy, and post transplantation.The MRD values of these samples were analyzed to evaluate the residual tumor cells and metastasis. The killing effect of the CAR-T cells was evaluated by the recovery of CD19+B cells before transplantation and the period between the timepoint when CD19+B cells was recovered and the timepoint when CAR-T cells were infused. Peripheral blood CAR-T cells were counted at different time points. Statistic analysis was performed by Kaplan-Meie assay and Log-rank test to analyze the difference of univariate cumulative survival.Results:(1)Among the 37 patients, 8 died and 29 survived. 5 patients relapsed after transplantation, of which 4 relapsed patients died and 1 survived. (2)MFC MRD negative remission rate of the death group was lower than that of the survival group at the following time points: post-CAR-T therapy and prior to transplantation (5/8 vs. 28/29, χ 2=7.540, P=0.006); day 15 of the CAR-T cell reinfusion (3/8 vs. 24/29, χ 2=6.512, P=0.011); day 28 of the reinfusion (3/8 vs. 276/29, χ 2=10.065, P=0.002). The probability of extramedullary MFC MRD positive tumor infiltration in the death group was higher than that in the survival group(7/8 vs. 14/29, χ 2=3.931, P=0.047). After CAR-T cell immunotherapy, the recovery period of CD19-positive cells in the death group, or the time for CAR-T cells to kill CD19-positive cells, was shorter than that in the survival group [42.00 days(30.00,49.00) vs. 55.00 days(41.50,73.50), Z=0.022, P=0.020]. Conclusion:The positive results of MRD by MFC at the following timepoints may predict unfavorable outcomes, such as post-CAR-T therapy and prior to transplantation, day 15 and 28 of the CAR-T cell immunotherapy, which may provide some guidance for clinical management.

Objective:This study aims to analyze the counts (per kilogram of body weight) or percentages of transplanted lymphocyte subgroups in children with non-infectious pulmonary complications (NIPC) and air-leak syndrome (ALS) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) and explore its significance in the progression of lung complications after transplantation.Methods:The patients with NIPC and ALS after allo-HSCT from January 2013 to December 2019 in Hebei Yanda Ludaopei Hospital were retrospectively studied and the influencing factors in the progress of NIPC after HSCT were statistically analyzed.Results:Of the 2026 children who received HSCT treatment, 59 patients (34 males and 25 females) developed NIPC, the probability was 2.9% (59/2 026), and the probability of combined ALS was 1.4% (28/206). The differences in the comparison between NIPC progressed to ALS group (ALS group) and failed to progress to ALS group (non-ALS group) in the patient′s age( P=0.028), disease condition before transplantation( P=0.022), NIPC onset time( P=0.004) were significant. The P values of the percentage of NKT-like cells in the bone marrow ( P=0.008) or peripheral stem cells ( P=0.003) accounted for the lymphocytes. CD4+CD25+dim cells in bone marrow ( P=0.029) or peripheral stem cells ( P=0.036) accounted for the CD4+lymphocytes and the ratio of CD4/CD8 in bone marrow( P=0.004) or peripheral stem cells ( P=0.020) were less than 0.05, which meant the differences in patients′ refusion cells were significant. In the binary logistic regression model, the percentage of bone marrow NKT-like cells to lymphocytes, the ratio of bone marrow CD4+/CD8+and the percentage of peripheral stem NK cells to lymphocytes were important risk factors for the progression of NIPC to ALS. The rest factors were excluded from the model (AUC=0.918, P<0.05). Conclusion:During allo-HSCT transplantation, a high proportion of NKT-like cell and NK cell levels, and a high CD4+/CD8+ratio in the infusion of donors with high immune tolerance have an important correlation with the progression of the NIPC.