1.Effects of chemotherapy combined with Chinese herbal medicine Kangliu Zengxiao Decoction on tumor markers of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomized, controlled trial.
Guiying YAN ; Zhenye XU ; Haibin DENG ; Zhiyong WAN ; Lei ZHANG ; Jiaoyu ZHU
Journal of Integrative Medicine 2011;9(5):525-530
Background: Tumor markers are widely used in clinical practice and have become important indicators in assessing cancer progress. There is increasing concern that chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine has effects in decreasing the level of tumor markers. Objective: To investigate the effects of chemotherapy combined with Kangliu Zengxiao Decoction (KLZX), a compound Chinese herbal drug, on tumor markers carbohydrate antigen 50 (CA 50), cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21-1) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and to explore the relationships between clinical efficacy and tumor markers. Design, setting, participants and interventions: Patients were included from Punan Hospital of Shanghai Pudong New District and Longhua Hospital between October 2008 and December 2009. Seventy-four subjects with advanced NSCLC were randomly assigned into treatment group (n=37) and control group (n=37). Patients in the control group were treated with chemotherapy alone while patients in the treatment group were treated with chemotherapy combined with KLZX. Chemotherapy of NP (vinorelbine + cisplatin) was given for two cycles and patients in the treatment group were administered with KLZX during chemotherapy. Main outcome measures: Levels of CA50, CYFRA21-1 and CEA before and after treatment were evaluated and the relationship between changes in levels of tumor makers and tumor size, clinical symptoms and living condition score (Karnofsky score) was analyzed. Results: No patients achieved a complete remission. The disease control rates (complete remission (CR)+partial remission (PR)+no change (NC)) were 89.20% (33/37) and 70.30% (26/37) in the treatment and control group respectively (P<0.05). The levels of CA50, CYFRA21-1 and CEA were clearly decreased in the treatment group after treatment (P<0.05) while also decreased in the patients without progression of disease. There were no obvious changes of CA50, CYFRA21-1 and CEA in the control group, and there was even a trend of increase. Furthermore, the improvement rates of clinical syndrome were 51% (19/37) vs 11% (4/37) (P<0.05) in the treatment group and control group respectively. The total response rates of quality of life were 91.89% (34/37) vs 56.76% (21/37) (P<0.01) in the treatment and control group respectively. Conclusion: Combined chemotherapy with KLZX in treating advanced NSCLC can acquire better stabilizing tumor foci, decrease levels of tumor markers and improve the clinical symptoms and Karnofsky score.
2.The effects of optimizing the timeliness of emergency care of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in hospital
Jiaoyu CAO ; Xia CHEN ; Dandan YIN ; Hua YU ; Hongzhi JI ; Cuihong ZHU ; Likun MA
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2018;34(23):1782-1787
Objective To investigate the effect of optimizing rescue time for patients with acute st-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the hospital. Methods A retrospective analysis of the clinical data of 133 patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction who were hospitalized in the first affiliated hospital of university of science and technology of china during July,2016 to June,2017 was performed. Timeline in the rescue, the result of coronary reperfusion and satisfaction degree of patients were analyzed. Results The rapid evaluation time (F=2.609, P=0.046),emergency handling time(F=7.581, P=0.032), login and logout time (F=5.667, P=0.017)and visit-ballon time (F=8.942, P=0.007) were shortened quarter by quarter . The average time of each project in the four quarters showed a statistically significant difference. The difference of TIMI classification of coronary flow reperfusion among the four quarters was statistically significant (H=8.402, P=0.038). The satisfaction degree of each quarter showed a statistically significant difference (the third quarter of 2016:94.68±2.38, the fourth quarter of 2016:96.72± 5.10, the first quarter of 2017:97.23 ± 7.64,the second quarter of 2017:98.36 ± 4.86;F=7.891,P=0.048). Conclusions Enhancing timeliness of emergency care can remarkably shorten rescue time, improve satisfaction degree of patients and help to improve the success rate of emergency treatment for patients with STEMI.
3.Diagnosis model of the white matter injury of premature infants based on ultrasonography radiomics
Ting ZHU ; Wei JIANG ; Shuang ZHANG ; Dan CHAI ; Jiaoyu MAO ; Zhen LEI ; Yuya WEI
Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography 2023;32(4):324-331
Objective:To investigate the value of the ultrasonography in the diagnosis of the white matter injury of premature infants based on gray-scale ultrasonography radiomics.Methods:A total of 256 premature infants in Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital and Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University from August 2018 to April 2022 were analyzed retrospectively. The computer-generated random numbers were assigned to the training set and the verification set according to 6∶4 ratio. On the basis of standardized collection of craniocerebral ultrasound images, the radiomics features were extracted from imaging by Pyradiomics 3.0.1 software package, the Mann-Whitney U test and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and stepwise regression were used to select the optimal features. Then the Logistic regression was used to build radiomics model. According to MRI, ROC curve was utilized to evaluate the performance of the model. The craniocerebral ultrasound images in the validation set were independently diagnosed by a senior physician and a junior physician, and then the above two physicians diagnosed again with the help of the radiomics, and the diagnostic abilities of this model were compared with those of the junior and senior physicians with and without radiomics assist. Results:A total of 5 optimal features were selected to develop radiomics model. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) in the training and validation sets were 0.861, 0.775, 0.799, 0.818; 0.929, 0.824, 0.853, 0.876, respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and AUC in the senior sonographer, the junior sonographer, and both of them with radiomics assist for the dagnosis in the validation set were 0.929, 0.892, 0.902, 0.910; 0.714, 0.743, 0.735, 0.729; 0.929, 0.919, 0.922, 0.924; 0.857, 0.824, 0.833, 0.841, respectively. Performance of radiomics model reached the level of the senior sonographer (AUC: 0.876 vs 0.910, P=0.284), which was significantly better than the performance of the junior sonographer(AUC: 0.876 vs 0.729, P=0.001). Performance of the junior sonographer with radiomics assist was significantly better than the performance of the junior sonographer(AUC: 0.841 vs 0.729, P=0.003). Performance of the senior sonographer with radiomics assist was comparable to that of the senior sonographer(AUC: 0.924 vs 0.910, P=0.156). Conclusions:The ultrasound diagnosis method based on radiomics technology shows good diagnostic performance for the white matter injury of premature infants. It is helpful to improve the diagnostic ability of junior sonographer. It is expected to assist the sonographers in diagnosis and provide objective, consistent and accurate results for clinical practice.