Objective: To understand the cardiac involvement of Dengue fever patients and to analyze the clinical characteristics of Dengue fever combining cardiac complications.
Methods: A total of 395 patients of Dengue fever treated in our hospital were analyzed. Blood levels of CK, CK-MB, CTnT, NT-proBNP were examined, ECG and echocardiography (UCG) were conducted in all patients. Upon Dengue recovery, the levels of CK and CK-MB were re-examined in patients with elevated indexes.
Results: Overall, there were 47.3% patients with increased CK, 61.3% with increased CK-MB, 42.5% with increased CTnT and 22.4% with increased NT-proBNP; 37.2% patients with abnormal ECG and 29.9% with abnormal UCG. There were 65.5% patients showing CK and CK-MB reduction more than 4 days upon Dengue recovery. Compared to those without the history of heart disease (HD), the patients with HD history had the higher abnormal rates of CTnT (17.7 vs 60.8) %, NT-proBNP (4 vs 32.3) % and ECG (25.1 vs 51.7) %, UCG (15.7 vs 41.7) %, allP<0.01. The abnormal rates in patients with heart failure (HF) were higher than those without HF as in CK-MB (75.8 vs 53.2) %, cTnT (85.5 vs 31.7) % and ECG (87.1 vs 31.7) %, UCG (63.8 vs 17.0) %, allP<0.01. The abnormal rates in elder patients were higher than non-elder patients as in CTnT (64.4 vs 7.7) %, NT-proBNP (32.2 vs 4.9) % and ECG (53.4 vs 21.8) %, UCG (38.9 vs 14.1) %, allP<0.01. The patients with elder age and HD history were more likely to have cardiac involvement upon Dengue infection.
Conclusion: Blood levels of CK, CK-MB, CTnT, NT-proBNP and ECG, UCG could be used to evaluate the patients with Dengue fever in order to prevent the cardiac complications at the early stage.

Objective: To explore the risk factors for heart failure (HF) occurrence in patients with inferior or combining right ventricular myocardial infarction (MI).
Methods: A total of 143 patients with inferior or combining right ventricular myocardial infarction (MI) in our hospital from 2013-01 to 2015-06 were studied. Based on HF occurrence, the patients were divided into 2 groups:HF group, n=81 and Non-HF group, n=62. The risk factors related to HF occurrence as age, gender and hypertension were retrospectively studied and compared between 2 groups.
Results: Compared with Non-HF group, HF group had more patients with hypertension, female gender, higher blood levels of Hs-CRP and creatinine, more volume of lfuid input on the 3rd day of admission and the higher ratio of V4-6 ST segment depression in ECG; while obviously lower diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at admission. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis indicated that hypertension (OR=3.275, 95% CI 1.220-8.793), female gender (OR=13.236, 95% CI 3.476-50.405), Hs-CRP (OR=1.029, 95%CI 1.005-1.070), low DBP at admission (OR=0.945, 95%CI 0.911-0.979), serum creatinine (OR=1.053, 95%CI 1.029-1.078) and V4-6 ST segment depression in ECG (OR=4.118, 95%CI 1.395-12.154) were positively related to HF occurrence in relevant patients.
Conclusion: The incidence of HF has been relatively high in patients with inferior or combining right ventricular MI;hypertension, female gender, low DBP at admission, blood level of Hs-CRP, serum creatinine, V4-6 ST segment depression in ECG were the independent risk factor for HR occurrence.

Twenty-two items of national criteria of acupuncture-moxibustion operation standardization have been issued by the People’s Republic of China. To understand the situation of use of these criteria, the authors analyzed and studied the situation of application of acupuncture-moxibustion criteria in related papers, textbooks and monographs to provide a basis for further establishing and revising the criteria. The results show that people are building awareness of use of acupuncture-moxibustion criteria, and the criteria have gradually been used in more and more papers, textbooks and works.