1.Electronic Medical Record in TCM Field-An Analysis Based on Scientific Knowledge Visualization
Guang RONG ; Qingyu XIE ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2017;24(1):99-104
ObjectiveTo assess China’s newly evolved hot spots and novelty of structural electronic medical record in TCM field.Methods Articles about electronic medical record in TCM field were retrieved from CNKI from January 2000 to December 2015, focusing on researchers, research institutes, and key words for bibliometric analysis. Then visualization software CiteSpace was used to establish co-occurrence network.ResultsThe top 3 productive authors were LIU Bao-yan (13 articles), ZHANG Run-shun (8 articles), XIE Qi (7 articles), and ZHOU Xue-zhong (7 articles). Institutes highly cooperated with others included China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Information Engineering College of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine and The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine. The major clusters were TCM diagnosis (#0), China’s TCM information (#1), artificial intelligence (#2), medical record management (#3), and medical laboratory department (#4). The representative keywords involved electronic medical record, TCM hospital, data mining, telemedicine, and artificial intelligence. ConclusionIn the field of TCM electronic medical record, cooperation is not sufficiently facilitated among researchers and institutes. Research hot spots are not formed and novelty is not obvious, which is probably because of the overall status quo for China’s TCM information construction.
2.Scientific Value of TCM Integrative Data Analysis in Big Data Era
Xu TONG ; Qingyu XIE ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2015;22(8):1-3
In recent years, TCM integrative data analysis has become an important issue requiring urgent solution because of the trend of exponential growth of clinical and scientific TCM research data. This article analyzed the necessity and problems of TCM integrative data analysis from the aspects of background and significance of TCM integrative data, status analysis, data visualization, and application prospect, and put forward the idea of applying data visualization method to data integrative analysis, with a purpose to provide new angles for the reasonable application of TCM data resources.
3.Treatment of essential thrombocytosis with Buyang Huanwu Decoction plus hydroxyurea:an effectiveness evaluation
Caiyong KANG ; Guang RONG ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2014;(2):101-103
Objective To observe the effectiveness of treating essential thrombocytosis(ET) with Buyang Huanwu Decoction plus hydroxyurea. Methods 120 patients with ET were randomly divided into observation group(OG) and control group(CG). Patients from OG were treated with Buyang huanwu decoction plus hydroxyurea, while those from CG were given hydroxyurea. After 6 months, the treatment effectiveness indexes including symptoms in a sense of chinese medicine, cell counts and saffy were observed. Results Total effective rate of OG was higher than that of CG(P<0.05). TCM symptoms remission in OG group was better than that of CG(P<0.05). After treatment, blood platelet count and megakaryocyte count were decreased in two groups(P<0.05), and the difference between two groups was signiifcan(P<0.05). Conclusion The therapy combined Chinese and western medicine deals with ET is better than simple western medicine treatment.
4.Experimental Study on Anti-Influenza Virus Effect of Different Sources Extracted Scutellaria
Linli SONG ; Wei WANG ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2006;0(04):-
Objective To compare the effect of different sources extracted scutellaria (Hebei, Shanxi and Dalian) on the death-protection and inhibition of FM1 infected mice. Method As animal model, FM1 infected mice was treated an hour after infection. Indexes including mortality, average survival time, lung index were observed to evaluate the effect of different sources extracted scutellaria on anti-influenza virus. Result Different sources extracted scutellaria reduced mortality (P
5.Inhibition of nerve transplantation rejection in adult mice induced by intrathymic injection of allogeneic antigen
Jianmin TANG ; Fengyun ZHANG ; Weijie YUE ; Shuying GAO ; Guibin QIAN ; Liqun WANG ; Xiuzhi JIA ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2007;11(25):5036-5038
BACKGROUND: Uncoupling of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is the main cause for transplantation rejection, and it is the best way to prevent transplantation rejection by induce immunological tolerance of the recipient to the donor organ. Self-tolerant T cells can be obtained by negative selection in thymus, whether the intrathymic injection of allogenic antigen can get the immunological tolerance to the antigen?OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of intrathymic injection of allogenic antigen on inducing immunological tolerance in nerve transplantation.DESIGN: A comparative observation.SETTINGS: Department of Immunology, Harbin Medical University; Department of Orthopaedics, Fourth Clinical Hospital of Harbin Medical University.MATERIALS: Thirty donor C57BL/6 mice (H-2b), male, aged from 6-8 weeks, weighing 18-22 g, were purchased from the Veterinarian Institute of Heilongjiang Province; While 60 recipient Balb/c mice (H-2b) female, aged from 6-8 weeks, weighing 18-22 g, from Beijing Experimental Animal Center. MHC (H-2b) antigen was prepared by the Department of Immunology, Harbin Medical University, and the concentration of protein was 4.4 g/L.METHODS: The experiments were carried out in the Department of Immunology, Harbin Medical University from June to November 2002. The recipient Balb/c mice were randomly divided into four groups: intrathymic injection group, syngenic transplantation group, allogenic transplantation group and immunosuppressant drug group. MHC (H-2b) antigen was extracted from splenic cells of donor C57BL/6 mice and injected intrathymically into recipient Balb/c mice (H-2d). Two weeks later, the sciatic nerve was transplanted to the recipient mice. Mixed lymphocyte reaction and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) were detected at 3 weeks after transplantation.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:The differences of mixed lymphocyte reaction and DTH were compared among the groups.RESULTS: All the 30 donor C25BL/6 mice (H-2b) and 60 recipient Balb/c mice (H-2d) were involved in the analysis of results.①Results of mixed lymphocyte reaction: The cell proliferations in the syngenic transplantation group and intrathymic injection group were obviously lower than that in the allogenic transplantation group [(546.1±75.1), (2 668.3±533.8), (3 101.3±429.1), (4 312.3±534.1) minutes-1, P<0.05].②Results of DTH: The thicknesses difference between two pads in the syngenic transplantation group and intrathymic injection group were obviously lower than that in the allogenic transplantation group [(41.1±3.7), (72.1±5.1), (57.6±11.3), (86.2±13.2)μm, P<0.05].CONCLUSION:The intrathymic injection of donor H-2b antigen could induce immunological tolerance of nerve transplantation.
6.Effects of HMME-SDT on hypertrophic scar of rabbit ear
Wei LI ; Jianfeng FEI ; Xiaofeng LI ; Zhiwei QU ; Jiaqi BI ; Yong CHENG ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Medical Aesthetics and Cosmetology 2014;20(1):58-61
Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of HMME-SDT therapy for the treatment of hypertrophic scar (HS) of rabbit ear.Methods 60 white rabbits were randomly divided into five groups.The model group and HMME-SDT treatment group were used to establish the models of hypertrophic scar in ears.Results The effect of HMME-SDT on the fibroblastic density in the hypertrophic scarring models was observed in rabbit ears.The HMME-SDT could lower the fibroblastic density,compared with the model group,with significant difference (P< 0.05).The effect of HMME-SDT on the collagen area density was noted in the hypertrophic scarring models in rabbit ears.The HMME-SDT could lower the collagen area density,compared with the model group,with significant difference from the fourth week of the epithelialization (P<0.01).Conclusions HMME is an effective sonosensitizer.HMME-SDT can significantly inhibit hypertrophic scar of rabbit ear.
7.Evaluation system for promoting learning based on the phased examination of medical practitioners and its effect evaluation
Jun WANG ; Meng WANG ; Junyan HAN ; Qinggang XU ; Shuli ZHANG ; Xiaojie ZHANG ; Chunqing ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2020;19(10):1151-1153
We strive to explore a student-centered evaluation system focused on improving students' learning efficiency and learning effect. Through classroom questioning, discussion of difficult cases, new progress report, question bank test, writing of clerkship notes, simulated inquiry between students with bedside inquiry, physical examination between students with bedside physical examination, operation training of basic clinical skills, direct observation and evaluation of clinical skills, mini-clinical exercise evaluation, graduation examination and other measures, an evaluation system for promoting learning by class evaluation, clerkship evaluation and practice evaluation has been established to cultivate the connotation construction of medical moral quality and clinical practice ability of medical students, and further promote the mastery of basic theoretical knowledge and clinical operation skills. By comparing the results of the phased examination for medical practitioners, the passing rate of 2018 is significantly higher than that of 2017, with 23.31% increased passing rate of theoretical results, and 0.79% increased passing rate of skills operation results. It can be seen that the evaluation system for promoting learning has played a guiding role in the teaching practice of clinical courses in our hospital.
8.An Exploration of Formula-Syndrome Differentiation in the Framework of Case-Based Reasoning
Wenjing YUAN ; Jinxi ZHAO ; Qinggang MENG
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(14):1423-1427
Case-based reasoning is a method of reasoning from experience to solve current problems in the field of cognitive science, which has the advantages of easy acquisition of knowledge, simple operation steps, and the ability to improve the efficiency of reasoning with the growth of experience. Formula-syndrome differentiation is a method of differentiation and treatment based on the scope of the adapted disease, disease mechanism, therapeutic methods, and contraindications of the formula. Analysed from the perspectives of concept, applicable field, and implementation steps, it is believed that the concept of formula-syndrome differentiation belongs to the scope of case-based reasoning, the clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine belongs to the applicable field of case-based reasoning, and the steps of formula-syndrome differentiation are consistent with the process of case-based reasoning. Based on the characteristics of case-based reasoning, we analyse the advantages, limitations and problems to be noted in the process of formula-syndrome differentiation, and put forward four strategies to improve the ability of formula-syndrome differentiation, including accumulating experience on formulas and syndromes, cultivating the ability to grasp the main symptoms, accumulating a rule base to improve the ability to modify formulas according to the symptoms, and improving the ability to assess the effect of treatment plans and obtain corresponding feedback, with a view to promoting the clinical application of formula-syndrome differentiation.
9.Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy can be used to treat osteoporosis
Jiaqi BI ; Ying ZHANG ; Qi YANG ; Yong CHENG ; Baolin LI ; Qinggang MENG
Chinese Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2018;40(4):262-266
Objective To observe the effect of a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) on the bone structure and metabolism of rats with disuse osteoporosis (DOP).Methods One hundred 4-month-old female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into a control group (INT group),an osteoporosis model group (DOP group),a sodium alendronate group (ALN group) and a pulsed electromagnetic field group (PEMF group),each of 25.The right hind-limbs of the rats in the DOP,ALN and PEMF groups were immobilized by tibia-tail fixation for two weeks to establish a DOP model.The rats in the ALN group were given 1 mg/kg of sodium alendronate once a day,while those in the PEMF group received PEMF at 3.82 mT and 10 Hz with a pulse time of 8 ms for 40 min/d.Five rats in each group were sacrificed at the 2nd,4th,8th and 12th week and their right hind-limbs were separated to measure the bone mineral density (BMD),structural mechanics indexes (the maximum load,maximum displacement and rupture energy) and material mechanics indexes (maximum stress,maximum strain and modulus).Moreover,the expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) were detected using immunohistochemical methods.Results The average BMD of the model group was significantly lower than that of the ALN group after 2 weeks,and lower than that of the PEMF group after 4 and 8 weeks.After 12 weeks the average BMD of the PEMF group was significantly higher than that of the ALN and model groups.After two and four weeks,all the structural and material mechanics measurements had decreased significantly compared with those of the control group.The average maximum displacement and load of the ALN group had increased significantly compared with the model group after 4 weeks of treatment.After 8 weeks the average maximum load,maximum displacement,rupture energy and maximum stress of the ALN and PEMF groups had increased significantly compared with the model group.Compared with the model group,the average level of TNF-α decreased gradually in both the ALN and PEMF groups from the 2nd week on,while that of BMP-2 increased from the same time point.However,at the 8th week the expression of BMP-2 protein in the PEMF group was on average significantly higher than in the ALN group.Conclusion Both PEMF and sodium alendronate can increase bone density,but PEMF has more persistent effects.
10.Effect of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy on the clinical efficacy of coronavirus disease 2019 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Zhiling ZHAO ; Hong CAO ; Qin CHENG ; Nan LI ; Shuisheng ZHANG ; Qinggang GE ; Ning SHEN ; Lincheng YANG ; Weili SHI ; Jie BAI ; Qingyang MENG ; Chao WU ; Ben WANG ; Qiuyu LI ; Gaiqi YAO
Chinese Critical Care Medicine 2021;33(6):708-713
Objective:To observe the effect of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) and high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) on the prognosis of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) accompanied with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).Methods:A retrospective study was conducted in Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology when authors worked as medical team members for treating COVID-19. COVID-19 patients with pulse oxygen saturation/fraction of inspiration oxygen (SpO 2/FiO 2, S/F) ratio < 235, managed by medical teams [using S/F ratio instead of oxygenation index (PaO 2/FiO 2) to diagnose ARDS] from February to April 2020 were included. The patients were divided into NIPPV group and HFNC group according to their oxygen therapy modes. Clinical data of patients were collected, including general characteristics, respiratory rate (RR), fraction of FiO 2, SpO 2, heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), S/F ratio in the first 72 hours, lymphocyte count (LYM), percentage of lymphocyte (LYM%) and white blood cell count (WBC) at admission and discharge or death, the duration of dyspnea before NIPPV and HFNC, and the length from onset to admission. The differences of intubation rate, all-cause mortality, S/F ratio and RR were analyzed, and single factor analysis and generalized estimation equation (GEE) were used to analyze the risk factors affecting S/F ratio. Results:Among the 41 patients, the proportion of males was high (68.3%, 28 cases), the median age was 68 (58-74) years old, 28 cases had complications (68.3%), and 34 cases had multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS, 82.9%). Compared with HFNC group, the proportion of complications in NIPPV group was higher [87.5% (21/24) vs. 41.2% (7/17), P < 0.05], and the value of LYM% was lower [5.3% (3.4%-7.8%) vs. 10.0% (3.9%-19.7%), P < 0.05], the need of blood purification was also significantly lower [0% (0/24) vs. 29.4% (5/17), P < 0.05]. The S/F ratio of NIPPV group gradually increased after 2 hours treatment and RR gradually decreased with over time, S/F ratio decreased and RR increased in HFNC group compared with baseline, but there was no significant difference in S/F ratio between the two groups at each time point. RR in NIPPV group was significantly higher than that in HFNC group after 2 hours treatment [time/min: 30 (27-33) vs. 24 (21-27), P < 0.05]. There was no significant difference in rate need intubation and hospital mortality between NIPPV group and HFNC group [66.7% (16/24) vs. 70.6% (12/17), 58.3% (14/24) vs. 52.9% (9/17), both P > 0.05]. Analysis of the factors affecting the S/Fratio in the course of oxygen therapy showed that the oxygen therapy mode and the course of illness at admission were the factors affecting the S/F ratio of patients [ β values were -15.827, 1.202, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were -29.102 to -2.552 and 0.247-2.156, P values were 0.019 and 0.014, respectively]. Conclusion:Compared with HFNC, NIPPV doesn't significantly reduce the intubation rate and mortality of patients with COVID-19 accompanied with ARDS, but it significantly increases the S/F ratio of those patients.