1.Umbilical vascular catheter rupture: a case report and literature review
Nanhui XIE ; Fangting LI ; Jihua CHEN ; Baoying TAN ; Chenzhou LIU
Chinese Journal of Neonatology 2023;38(5):267-271
Objective:To study the clinical characteristics of neonatal umbilical vascular catheter (UVC) rupture.Methods:A neonate with UVC rupture admitted to Neonatology Department of our hospital was retrospectively reviewed. Literature on this subject were searched in the following databases: Chinese Medical Journal full-text Database, CNKI, Wanfang Database, CQVIP database, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and Cochrane Library (up until March 15 2022). The causes, treatment and prognosis of neonatal UVC rupture were analyzed.Results:In our case, the UVC was accidentally damaged during the removal of the ligature suture. The UVC was ruptured after a slight force was applied to remove the catheter, resulting in approximately 7 cm of UVC remaining in the body. Trans-umbilical vein intervention was performed and the catheter was successfully removed with a lasso under X-ray guidance. A total of 33 UVC rupture cases were included from 15 articles (no case report in China before). In 16 cases (47.1%), the UVCs were accidentally cut off by knife or scissors when removing the catheter. In 3 cases (8.8%), the UVCs were broken during insertion. The UVC was broken in 1 case (2.9%) during flushing the catheter. The causes of the other 14 cases (41.2%) were unknown. 9 cases (26.5%) had clinical manifestations, including respiratory distress, prominent heart murmur, sepsis and limb ischemia. 20 cases (58.8%) showed no clinical features. No data on the other 5 cases (14.7%). 21 cases (61.8%) received vascular intervention removal, 11 cases (32.4%) received surgical removal, 1 case (2.9%) was removed with tweezers, and 1 case (2.9%) died before UVC was removed. Among the neonates receiving surgical treatment, 1 case died of sepsis on the second day after surgery and 1 case had sequela of limb ischemia. 2 cases had postoperative vasospasm and embolism after vascular intervention with overall good prognosis.Conclusions:The rupture of UVC in neonates is rare and mainly related with knife and scissors injury.
2.CAMU-Net:an improved model for retinal vessel segmentation based on Attention U-Net
Yunfei TANG ; Zhiping DAN ; Zhengtian HONG ; Yonglin CHEN ; Peilin CHENG ; Guo CHENG ; Fangting LIU
Chinese Journal of Medical Physics 2024;41(8):960-968
An improved U-Net model(channel attention module U-Net,CAMU-Net)is proposed to achieve precise segmentation of retinal vessels.CAMU-Net model enhances its understanding of regional features by employing residual enhancement convolution to extract important information from the regions,improves the global feature acquisition capability by introducing feature refinement module to promote feature extraction,realizes precise segmentation by adding channel attention module to capture image features accurately,and enhances its capability to perceive target boundaries and details through a multi-scale feature fusion structure.The ablation study on the DRIVE dataset validates the role of each module in retinal vessel segmentation.The comparison with other mainstream network models on DRIVE and STARE datasets verify that CAMU-Net model is superior to other models.
3.Analgesic Effect and Mechanism of Osteoking on Dorsal Root Ganglion Compression Model Rats
Wuqiong HOU ; Ying ZONG ; Fangting ZHOU ; Sensen LI ; Liting XU ; Xueying TAO ; Chunfang LIU ; Chao WANG ; Na LIN
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2023;29(24):30-41
ObjectiveTo investigate the analgesic effect and mechanism of Osteoking (OK) on nerve compression in lumbar disc herniation. MethodThe rat model of chronic compression of dorsal root ganglion (CCD) was established to simulate clinical lumbar disc herniation. The CCD rats were randomly divided into model group, low, medium, and high dose OK groups (1.31, 2.63, 5.25 mL·kg-1·d-1), and pregabalin group (5 mg·kg-1), with eight rats in each group. Another eight SD rats were taken as the blank group, and the same volume of normal saline was given by gavage. Behavioral tests, side effect evaluation, network analysis, Western blot, immunofluorescence, and antagonist application were used to explore the effect. ResultCompared with the blank group, the mechanical hyperalgesia threshold, thermal hyperalgesia threshold, and the expression of inflammatory factors in the spinal dorsal horn of the model group are significantly increased (P<0.01), and the related indicators of the affected foot footprints are significantly down-regulated (P<0.01). The expression of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), and phosphorylated extracellular regulated protein kinase (p-ERK) in microglia in the spinal dorsal horn is significantly increased in the model group (P<0.01). Compared with the model group, low, medium, and high dose OK groups can increase the mechanical hyperalgesia and thermal hyperalgesia thresholds of CCD rats (P<0.05, P<0.01) in a dose-dependent manner, improve the gait of CCD rats (P<0.05, P<0.01), and reduce the expression of inflammatory factors in the spinal dorsal horn (P<0.05, P<0.01). The expression of STAT3, VEGFA, and p-ERK in the spinal dorsal horn microglia of CCD rats is significantly decreased (P<0.05, P<0.01), and the acetic acid-induced nociceptive response in rats is effectively reduced (P<0.05, P<0.01). In addition, there is no tolerance. The results of the body mass test, organ index, forced swimming, and rotation show that OK has no obvious toxic or side effects. Further antagonist experiments show that MRS1523 and RS127445 can reverse the transient analgesic effect of OK compared with the high dose OK group (P<0.01). ConclusionOK has a good analgesic effect on the CCD model without obvious toxic side effects, and its mechanism may be related to the activation of ADORA3 and HTR2B and the inhibition of STAT3, VEGFA, p-ERK, and other elements in microglia.