Objective To explore the potential value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in diagnosis of renal pelvic carcinoma. Methods The ultrasonogram of conventional ultrasound and CEUS were analyzed retrospectively in 22 patients of renal pelvic carcinoma proved pathologically. The size, echo, boundary and color flow signal of renal pelvic lesions were observed with conventional ultrasound. The enhancement modality and phase of tumors were also observed with CEUS, including wash-in and wash-out time, as well as the perfusion appearances. Results The maximum diameters ranged from 1.5 cm to 8.5 cm in 22 renal pelvic tumors. Conventional ultrasound detected flat mass in 7 tumors, irregular mass in 15 tumors; the same side hydronephrosis in 11 patients. Color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI) disclosed fairly rich flow signal of 5 tumors, a small amount of flow signal around tumor in 9 tumors and no-flow signal in the rest tumors. CEUS detected the cortical phase enhancement in all renal pelvic tumors, including synchronously enhancement in 8 tumors and delayed enhancement in 14 tumors. In peak time, hypoechogenicity compared to the normal renal cortex was showed in 18 tumors, hyperechogenicity in 3 tumors and isoechogenicity in 1 tumor. Fast wash-out in medulla phase was displayed in 20 tumors, isochronously wash-out in 1 tumor and delayed wash-out in 1 tumor. The diagnostic accuracy of the conventional ultrasound and CEUS was 63.64% (14/22) and 81.82% (18/22), respectively. Conclusion CEUS can depict blood flow supply and improve the diagnostic rate of renal pelvic carcinoma.

Objective:To investigate the factors predictive of heart failure developing during hospital stay after undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).Methods:A retrospective analysis was performed on 534 patients with coronary heart disease who underwent PCI treatment at Hangzhou Ninth People′s Hospital from January 2017 to September 2022. The patients were divided into two groups according to whether heart failure occurred after the operation: a heart failure group consisting of 51 patients and a control group consisting of 483 patients. Univariate comparison and multivariate analysis were performed on factors that could lead to heart failure between the two groups, and a prediction model was established.Results:Univariate analysis showed that there were significant differences in age at admission, presence of cerebral infarction, presence of hypertension, New York Heart Association (NYHA) heart function classification, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), serum albumin, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (dNLR), D-dimer, and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels between the PCI postoperative heart failure group and the control group (all P<0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that age ≥60 years, LVEF<40%, presence of cerebral infarction, NYHA heart function classification Ⅱ/Ⅲ, serum albumin<40.15 g/L, and dNLR≥2.30 were independent risk factors for the development of heart failure during hospitalization after PCI (all P<0.05). Conclusions:Age, LVEF, presence of cerebral infarction, NYHA heart function classification, serum albumin, and dNLR can all affect the occurrence of heart failure during hospitalization after PCI for coronary heart disease. Establishing a prediction model based on these indicators can provide guidance for clinical practice.

Periodontology is one of the important disciplines in oral clinical medicine, which covers a wide range of subjects and intersects with many basic disciplines. Under the environment of the implementation of modular teaching in Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, the assessment method with separate propositions for the teaching and research section is still adopted. There is a mismatch between the assessment mode and the curriculum setting; the basic subject propositions are difficult to be combined with clinical cases; the knowledge point assessment is single, and the students' ability to integrate the knowledge points cannot be assessed. The development and construction of the comprehensive examination database for periodontology was based on curriculum integration, gathering the teaching backbones of various disciplines, focusing on periodontology, radiating all related disciplines, unifying the proposition outline, proposition type, proposition principle, combining with relevant knowledge points of various disciplines based on clinical cases, and tried to apply to clinical students majoring in stomatology. The use of the examination database promotes students' ability to flexibly apply theoretical knowledge to clinical case analysis, further promotes the reform of modular teaching, lays a solid foundation for future clinical work, and meanwhile provides an important basis for directions of the teaching and research section.