1.Viscoat viscoelastic combined with soft corneal contact lens for central corneal perforation
Jun HUANG ; Qiong AI ; Ke SHI ; Qifang JIN ; Xinbang MAO ; Lu SHI
Recent Advances in Ophthalmology 2017;37(4):338-340
Objective To investigate the clinical effects of the Viscoat viscoelastic combined with soft corneal contact lens for central corneal perforation.Methods Six cases were collected and treated with corneal local debridement of which diameter were less than 2.0 mm.Six cases received Viscoat viscoelastic injection into their anterior chamber.And then soft corneal contact lens were worn.The curative effect indicators such as patients' symptom,visual acuity,slit lamp examination,intraocular pressure,confocal microscope and corneal endothelial cell counts were recorded in the follow-up periods.Results All the cases were healed with the recovery time of 1 month to 2 months;After treatment,the best corrected visual acuity of patients were increased to 0.6-0.8 and average corneal endothelial cell count was (3415.5 ±279.5)mm-2.No obvious scar was left in the cornea and no serious complicatious occurred during treatment.Conclusion For traumatic corneal central perforation with diameter is 2.0 mm or less can be treated with Viscoat viscoelastic combined with soft corneal contact lens.This therapy is worthy of popularize since it's satisfied prognosis and less economic burden.
2.Preliminary evaluation of MR diffusion tensor imaging in children with acute renal injury
Qifang CAI ; Ke JIN ; Tianhui WU ; Ying YI ; Jie NIE
Journal of Chinese Physician 2020;22(2):224-227,232
Objective To investigate the study of magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion tensor imaging in children with acute kidney injury,and further improve the clinical research level of early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI).Methods Twenty-two children who met the clinical AKI diagnostic criteria were collected from the Children's Hospital of Hunan Province.Twenty-three children volunteers were collected as the control group.The anisotropy fraction (FA) and mean diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of the renal cortex and medulla of all the tested children were detected,and the serum creatinine value and disease test results of children with AKI were collected.Spearman correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between the renal and medullary ADC values and FA values and serum creatinine values in the children with AKI.Results There were no significant differences in the FA,ADC values of left and right renal cortex and medulla of case group (P > 0.05).There were no significant differences in the FA,ADC values of left and right renal cortex and medulla of control group (P > 0.05).The medullary FA value,cortical FA and ADC value of the children with AKI were significantly lower than those of normal children (P < 0.05).There was no significant difference in medullary ADC values between children with AKI and normal children (P > 0.05).The medullary FA value and cortical ADC value of AKI patients were negatively correlated with serum creatinine value (r =-0.868,-0.436,P < 0.05),and there was no correlation between cortical FA,medullary ADC and serum creatinine in the rest of the children.Conclusions As a non-invasive imaging method,diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can reflect the early renal damage of AKI and has potential application value for clinical diagnosis of AKI.
3.Cerebellar Structural Abnormality in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
Qifang LU ; Jin CHEN ; Yanming WANG ; Li HUANG ; Zhoufan JIANG ; Benedictor Alexander NGUCHU ; Shishuo CHEN ; Bensheng QIU ; Xiaoxiao WANG
Psychiatry Investigation 2023;20(4):334-340
Objective:
This study uses structural magnetic resonance imaging to explore changes in the cerebellar lobules in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and further analyze the correlation between cerebellar structural changes and clinical symptoms of ASD.
Methods:
A total of 75 patients with ASD and 97 typically developing (TD) subjects from Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange dataset were recruited. We adopted an advanced automatic cerebellar lobule segmentation technique called CEREbellum Segmentation to segment each cerebellar hemisphere into 12 lobules. Normalized cortical thickness of each lobule was recorded, and group differences in the cortical measures were evaluated. Correlation analysis was also performed between the normalized cortical thickness and the score of Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised.
Results:
Results from analysis of variance showed that the normalized cortical thickness of the ASD group differed significantly from that of the TD group; specifically, the ASD group had lower normalized cortical thickness than the TD group. Post-hoc analysis revealed that the differences were more predominant in the left lobule VI, left lobule Crus I and left lobule X, and in the right lobule VI and right lobule Crus I. Lowered normalized cortical thickness in the left lobule Crus I in the ASD patients correlated positively with the abnormality of development evident at or before 36 months subscore.
Conclusion
These results suggest abnormal development of cerebellar lobule structures in ASD patients, and such abnormality might significantly influence the pathogenesis of ASD. These findings provide new insights into the neural mechanisms of ASD, which may be clinically relevant to ASD diagnosis.
4.Quantitative study of abdominal hemorrhage in abdominal trauma based on computed tomography images
Jian CHEN ; Chenhuai TENG ; Qifang HE ; Hao WEN ; Weiyang MENG ; Can JIN ; Daqing CHEN
Chinese Journal of Trauma 2017;33(12):1109-1112
Objective To verify the feasibility and accuracy of the quantitative evaluation of the volume of internal abdominal hemorrhage based on CT images.Methods The clinical data of 76 patients diagnosed as abdominal hemorrhage or hemoperitoneum and performed with emergency surgery in the Second Affiliated Hospital to Wenzhou Medical University from January 2009 to September 2016 were retrospectively analyzed by case-control study.The Noboru Oriuchi's formula was used to calculate the volume of abdominal hemorrhage based on CT images,and the results were compared and adjusted with the volume of actual abdominal hemorrhage recorded during the operation.SPSS 21.0 was used to statistically analyze the data.The linear regression was analyzed on the results measured by the two methods.Results The volume of abdominal hemorrhage measured by the CT calculation method ranged from 10 to 4 335 ml,while the corresponding volume measured by operational calculation method ranged from 200 ml to 4 490 ml.The absolute difference in the volume measured by these two methods ranged from 4.8 ml to 500 ml.The ratio of the absolute difference to the volume of abdominal hemorrhage by operational calculation method ranged from 0.2% to 95.0%,the median of which was 4.5% (2.8%,8.9%).When the exact volume of abdominal hemorrhage was < 500 ml,the absolute difference in the exact volume ranged from 30.0% to 95.0%,the median of which was 69.1% (51.2%,78.6%).When the volume was less than 500 ml,the ratio ranged from 0.2%-13.6%,the median of which was 4.2% (2.7%,6.4%).Analysis of the numbers of the two measuring methods with linear correlation method after eliminating the cases in which the bleeding volume was less than 500 ml showed that two methods presented a linear correlation (r =0.971,P < 0.05).Conclusion After the conventional abdominal CT scanning,the Noboru Oriuchi's formula can be used to accurately calculate the volume of abdominal hemorrhage in patients with volume of abdominal hemorrhage more than 500 ml.