Objective Assess the value of pleura sliding sign with chest ultrasonography in the prediction of pleura adhesion prior to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS).Method 63 patients were evaluated for pleura sliding signs with chest ultrasonography at 9 points along the chest wall prior to thoracotomies and were compared with the findings of the same points during the operation.Methods Pleura sliding signs on 567 points were examined in 63 cases,and 106 points pleura adhesion were found by chest ultrasonography and 72 points were proved by operations.461 points were no pleura adhesion under chest unltrasonography and 495 points had no pleura adhesion confirmed by operations.Results The sensitivity,specificity,negative predictive value,positive predictive value and overall accuracy were 80.56%,90.03%,96.96%,54.72% and 9.07%,respectively.The Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC)curve showed that there should be no pleura adhesion if there were more than 8 points positive pleura sliding signs.Conclusion Examination of pleura sliding sign by chest ultrasonography is helpful to predict the presence and location of pleura adhesion prior to VATS.

Objective: To investigate the effect of standardized management of hypertension patients in community. Methods: Permanent residents aged 50-60 in the community were selected as the survey subjects from January 2016 to January 2017.After the standardized training of professional doctors in the First People's Hospital of Huainan, a unified investigation was carried out.A total of 160 qualified hypertensive patients were selected, including 91 males and 69 females.According to the random number table method, the patients were divided into the control group and the intervention group.The control group was given routine community nursing, and the intervention group was given standardized community team management, and the intervention period was 1 year.The changes of blood pressure and awareness rate before and after intervention were compared and analyzed. Results: Through standardized management of the team, the awareness rate, medication rate and control rate (85.0%, 77.5%, 47.5%) of the control group were higher than those before management (57.5%, 53.8%, 28.8%). The " three rates" of hypertension patients in intervention group (100.0%, 92.5%, 68.8%) were higher than those before management (58.8%, 56.2%, 31.3%). Moreover, the awareness rate, medication rate and control rate of the intervention group were significantly higher than those of the control group(χ²=12.973, 7.059, 7.421, all P<0.05). Meanwhile, the DBP and SBP of the intervention group were significantly lower than those of the control group[DBP: (98.7±16.4)mmHg vs.(78.5±11.7)mmHg, t=5.42, P<0.05; SBP: (161.2±10.6)mmHg vs.(130.6±12.1)mmHg, t=-5.31, P<0.05]. Conclusion The effect of standardized management of hypertension patients in community is better than traditional community nursing, which can effectively reduce blood pressure and improve the awareness rate, and is suitable for clinical application.

Objective:In the operation of esophageal cancer, nano carbon suspension was used for lymph tracing, and the effect of lymph tracing in different regions and its influence on prognosis were analyzed.Methods:From July 2013 to August 2014, 100 patients under esophageal cancer surgery in our department were analyzed. Randomly divided into experimental group and control group, 50 cases each. During the operation, nano carbon suspension was used to trace the lymph nodes in the experimental group, while conventional operation was only used in the control group. The general baseline data, the number of lymph nodes and positive lymph nodes in each region in the two groups were compared, the lymph node metastasis and survival were followed up, and the prognosis of the two groups were compared.Results:There was no significant difference in baseline data between the two groups( P>0.05). The average number of lymph nodes in the experimental group was 18.6 per case, and that in the control group was 15.1 per case. There was significant difference between the two groups( P=0.003). There was no significant difference in the number and degree of metastasis between the two groups( P=0.233, P=0.463). The effect of nano carbon suspension on tracing lymph nodes around the lower mediastinal esophagus was better. In the experimental group, 4.38 lymph nodes were removed in this area on average, 0.34 of which were metastatic lymph nodes. In the control group, 2.52 lymph nodes were removed in each case on average, 0.10 of which were metastatic lymph nodes. The comparison between the two groups was significantly higher than that of the control group( P=0.001, P=0.011 respectively). In the upper mediastinum, abdominal cavity and other mediastinal lymph nodes, there was no significant difference in the number of lymph nodes, the number of lymph nodes and the degree of metastasis between the two groups( P>0.05). The time of lymph node metastasis in the experimental group was significantly later than that in the control group( P=0.048, log rank test). There was no significant difference in survival time between the two groups( P=0.692, log rank test) . Conclusion:The results show that the nano carbon suspension has a good effect on the lymph node tracing during the operation of esophageal cancer, and the effect on the lymph node tracing around the lower mediastinal esophagus is better.In the area close to the lung drainage area, the tracer effect is poor, and it has certain effect in reducing or delaying lymph node metastasis.

Objective To study an accurate prediction algorithm for irregular respiratory movements,effectively compensate for the time delay of radiotherapy systems,so as to improve the target accuracy of imageguided tracking or gated radiotherapy for thoracic and abdominal tumors.Methods A prediction algorithm based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was proposed to precisely predict irregular respiratory motion.The ANFIS model structure adopted the position and velocity of respiratory motion as input parameters to construct an N×N fuzzy set that combines position and velocity,and to establish a training set through historical data.In the prediction,if the position or velocity in the latest input signal was out of the range of the training set,the position or velocity would be adjusted accordingly and treated as the input parameter of the ANFIS model for prediction.The ANFIS was evaluated using 20 cases of irregular respiratory clinical data from CyberKnife-treated thoracic and abdominal tumors patients.The accuracy of the four typical prediction algorithms,including ANFIS,neural network (NN),support vector machine (SVM),and CyberKnife Synchrony,was compared by retrospective offline analysis.Results The ANFIS algorithm showed better performance than NN,SVM and Synchrony in normalized root mean square error (nRMSE),the maximum error (Max),and the number of errors greater than 1 mm.Conclusions The accuracy and robustness of the ANFIS algorithm are superior to NN,SVM and CyberKnife Synchrony.The ANFIS can better predict irregular respiratory signals.

Objective    To investigate the value of esophageal activity examination under X-ray fluoroscopy and chest CT in evaluating the resectability of upper thoracic esophageal cancer. Methods    A total of 221 upper thoracic esophageal carcinoma patients underwent radical operation between 2009 and 2015 in our hospital were enrolled, including 141 males and 80 females with a median age of 59 (47-79) years. Preoperative routine esophageal activity examination under X-ray fluoroscopy and chest enhanced CT were performed to determine whether the tumor had external invasion. The results of the two methods were compared with that observed during the operation. Results    The number of patients with esophageal activity score 1-6 was 70, 85, 32, 29, 2 and 3, respectively. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of esophageal activity examination was 0.897 (95%CI 0.85-0.93, P<0.001), and the cut off value was >3. According to the ROC curve activity score, 4-6 points were considered as invasion, and 1-3 points were non-invasion. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and misdiagnosis rate of esophageal activity examination was 75.0%, 89.3%, 88.2%, 10.7%, respectively, and those of CT scan were 75.0%, 66.8%, 67.4%, 33.2%, respectively. Compared with CT scan, the specificity of esophageal activity examination was higher and the misdiagnosis rate was lower. Compared with the detection during the operation, 86.7% of patients with actual invasion of trachea and 85.7% of patients with actual invasion of other parts were in accordance with the esophageal activity examination results. Conclusion    Esophageal activity examination under X-ray fluoroscopy can accurately predict the resectability of upper thoracic esophageal cancer, which is a useful supplement to chest CT examination, especially in the aspect of judging the relationship between lesions and the trachea.