1.Juvenile onset respiratory papillomatosis: risk factors for severity.
Chuqin ZHANG ; Bobei CHEN ; Benyu NAN ; Yingying CHEN ; Jinjian GAO ; Saiyu HUANG ; Haijie XIANG ; Xiao YU ; Xuejun LIU ; Baozhen LUO
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2014;28(23):1848-1851
OBJECTIVE:
This study was designed to explore the risk factors associated with severity of juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.
METHOD:
A retrospective study was conducted to study determinants of severe forms of juvenile recurrent onset respiratory papillomatosis. The patients were separated into different groups based on the onset age, the first recurrence of age, the first recurrence of period, gender and incision of tracheal respectively. The relationship among the lesion severity score,the involvement of the subregion, operation period and the next operation period were also explored.
RESULT:
It was observed that some children who recurred before 4 years old required more surgery, shorter operation period(the average, longest or shortest operation period) than those elder children, the differences were statistically (P=0. 029, 0. 003, 0. 010, 0. 039, respectively). The severity score of lesion was correlated positively with the involvement of the subregion and negatively with operation period (r=0. 914, -0. 451, respectively). Some children who diagnosed before 4 years old had to endure more severity score and shorter operation period than those older children, the differences were statistically (P= 0. 036, 0. 000, respectively). 8 cases accepted incision of tracheal, they accepted more surgery too. But the differences in the onset age, the first recurrence of age, and the operation period were not statistically.
CONCLUSION
The results showed that the clinical course of juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis was closely related to the first recurrence age and period, while the severity of disease was associated to the onset age and the involvement of the subregion.
Adolescent
;
Age of Onset
;
Child
;
Child, Preschool
;
Humans
;
Papilloma
;
Papillomavirus Infections
;
classification
;
epidemiology
;
surgery
;
Respiratory Tract Infections
;
classification
;
epidemiology
;
surgery
;
Retrospective Studies
;
Risk Factors
;
Severity of Illness Index
;
Trachea
2.Efficacy of intranasal corticosteroids-gelatin sponge in the treatment of nasal adhesion after nasal endoscopic sinus surgery
Baozhen LUO ; Bobei CHEN ; Haijie XIANG ; Saiyu HUANG ; Xuejun LIU ; Fanli LIU
Chinese Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2017;24(2):95-98
OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of intranasal corticosteroids-gelatin sponge and saline-gelatin sponge in the treatment of nasal adhesion.METHODS A total of 208 noses(170 patients) with nasal adhesions after receiving the endoscopic sinus surgeries from July,2012 to December,2015 were selected.All the cases were divided randomly into two groups:the treatment group and the control group.Both groups received separation treatments of the nasal adhesions.The intranasal corticosteroidsgelatin sponges were used as the separation material for the treatment group,while saline-gelatin sponges for the control group.The severity score and the time of treatment were evaluated as the indicators for curative efficacy of the treatment in each case.The differences of efficacy between two groups were analysed statistically.RESULTS The severity scores of the two groups after the treatment were both substantially lower than those before the treatment;The after-treatment severity scores of the treatment group were significantly lower than those of the control group;the times of treatment in the treatment group were substantially lower than those of the control group.The differences stayed for 3 months,and they became insignificant after 3 months.CONCLUSION The intranasal corticosteroids-gelatin sponge can be a quicker and more effective treatment of nasal adhesion in comparison with saline-gelatin sponge.
3.Gestational dexamethasone exposure impacts hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission and learning and memory function with transgenerational effects.
Mingcui LUO ; Yiwen YI ; Songqiang HUANG ; Shiyun DAI ; Lulu XIE ; Kexin LIU ; Shuai ZHANG ; Tao JIANG ; Tingting WANG ; Baozhen YAO ; Hui WANG ; Dan XU
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2023;13(9):3708-3727
The formation of learning and memory is regulated by synaptic plasticity in hippocampal neurons. Here we explored how gestational exposure to dexamethasone, a synthetic glucocorticoid commonly used in clinical practice, has lasting effects on offspring's learning and memory. Adult offspring rats of prenatal dexamethasone exposure (PDE) displayed significant impairments in novelty recognition and spatial learning memory, with some phenotypes maintained transgenerationally. PDE impaired synaptic transmission of hippocampal excitatory neurons in offspring of F1 to F3 generations, and abnormalities of neurotransmitters and receptors would impair synaptic plasticity and lead to impaired learning and memory, but these changes failed to carry over to offspring of F5 and F7 generations. Mechanistically, altered hippocampal miR-133a-3p-SIRT1-CDK5-NR2B signaling axis in PDE multigeneration caused inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission, which might be related to oocyte-specific high expression and transmission of miR-133a-3p. Together, PDE affects hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission, with lasting consequences across generations, and CDK5 in offspring's peripheral blood might be used as an early-warning marker for fetal-originated learning and memory impairment.