1.Origin and development of microcosmic syndrome differentiation
Journal of Integrative Medicine 2005;3(5):342-6
The suggestion of microcosmic syndrome differentiation is to meet the needs of clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the needs of evidence based medicine and the needs of the development of syndrome differentiation in TCM. The possibility of microcosmic syndrome differentiation might be the development of integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine as well as modern science and technology. Microcosmic syndrome differentiation has its superiority and limitation. There are some problems in developing microcosmic syndrome differentiation, such as lack of standard for syndrome differentiation, contradiction between single microcosmic index and the entirety, non-specificity of the relationship between microcosmic indexes and syndromes, and the influence of disease on microcosmic syndrome differentiation, discrepancy between the essence study of TCM syndromes and the clinical practice. It is suggested that the concept of TCM syndrome is a certain pathological process during the onset and development of disease, composed of some subjective and objective indexes. The objective indexes include the macrocosmic and the microcosmic indexes, the entirety and the part.
2.Significance of standardized special staining technology for pathological diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infectious diseases
Feifei LIU ; Xue LI ; Mulan JIN
Chinese Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology 2017;33(6):653-658
To explore the significance of the application of standardized special staining technique in pathologic diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infectious diseases.Methods Final pathologic diagnosis of 104 cases pulmonary fungus infection disease in Beijing Chaoyang hospital from September 2011 to March 2016 were selected;HE staining only,HE staining combined with the traditional manual special staining method PAS and hexamine silver,and HE staining combined with automatic special staining PAS and hexamine-silver were used and compared.The two kinds of special staining technology were compared;the microscopic observation,analysis results (all the first staining results,not including the results of complex staining),the results on the basis of final pathologic diagnosis were also compared with the clinical preliminary diagnosis.Results Lung fungal infectious disease diagnosis rate and fungal classification rate,from low to high order consistence,showed that for the primary clinical diagnosis (29.8% and 19.2%),HE staining (32.7% and 32.7%),HE staining combined with traditional manual special staining method PAS and hexamine silver (90.4% and 87.5%),and HE staining combined with automatic special staining PAS and hexamine-silver (98.1% and 94.2%).The four methods were statistically significant on two aspects (P < 0.01,P < 0.01);the fourth method was significantly different from the first two (P < 0.01,P < 0.01).The fourth method was significantly different from the third kind of diagnosis rate (P < 0.05),typing rate was no significant difference (P > 0.05).But automatic special dyeing method of PAS and hexamine silver steps were more simple,with standardized chemical reagents,no artificial and environmental factors,short time-consuming,and less number of dropping-off and restaining of the section.Conclusion HE staining and its combination with automatic special staining of PAS and hexamine silver are much more standardized,and help to improve the diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infectious diseases and fungal classification rate.
3.On folk pulse methods in TCM from hologram theory
Zhiyuan CHEN ; Jiaxu CHEN ; Feifei XUE
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy 2005;0(01):-
Hologram is a theory to study the properties and laws of the world under a holographic interaction.Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) shares many common fi elds with hologram theory.Although some originally diagnostic folk methods such as Zhejiang.sixian pulse theory,Kunlun?tianyuan pulse theory have been rarely known and have not been widely recognized in modern time,the diagnostic methods of Jiugong pulse and hologram pulse based on the two pulses theories have shown its uniqueness and effectiveness through hundreds of years of clinic practices.Based on holographic principles and holism,a physician can make diagnoses noninvasive,simple and rapid,which is benefi t for inheritance and development of TCM pulse methods.
4.A study of clinicopathological features in patients with IgA nephropathy and the association with mycoplasma multi-infection
Xue JIANG ; Yuanyuan DU ; Feifei XU ; Jianna ZHANG ; Huidi ZHANG
Journal of Chinese Physician 2013;15(9):1183-1186
Objective To investigate the infection rates of mycoplasma penetrans (Mpe),mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) and mycoplasma ferments (Mf) in patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN),chronic kideny disease (CKD),and heathy people,to compare the difference of infection rate,and to analyze the association of mycoplasma infection and clinicopathological features in IgAN.Methods Blood samples were collected from 118 patients in IgAN group,90 patients in CKD group,and 89 cases in health control group.DNA of Mpe,Mp and Mf was detected in plasma by PCR.Positive cases were confirmed by Southern blot.According to mycoplasma infection,IgAN patients were divided into two groups,then analyzed the clinicopatholgical features.Results (1)Genus,Mpe,Mp,and Mf positive rates were 33.05%,16.1%,25.45 %,and 8.47% in IgAN group,respectively; 5.56%,2.22%,5.56%,and 2.22% in CKD group,respectively; and 3.33 %,1.11%,2.22%,and 0 in health group,respectively.Compared with CKD and health group,patients in IgAN group had a higher infection rate in Genus,Mpe,and Mp (P < 0.05).In IgAN group,10 patients had three kinds of mycoplasmas infection at the same time,and positive rate was 8.47% much higher than CKD group (positive rate was 2.22%) (P < 0.05).(2) Based on mycoplasm detection results,IgAN patients were divided into two groups,overlapping infection group and mycoplasma negative group.In overlapping infection group,the mean age of onset was much younger than negative group.Compared with negative group,overlapping infection group had higher tonsillitis and urinary tract infection rate,more severe microscopic hematuria and tubulointerstitium lesion (P < 0.05).Conclusions Patients with IgAN had higher infection rate of Genus,Mpe and Mp,compared with CKD patients and health people.Compared with mycoplasma negative group in IgAN patients,more severe microscopic hematuria and tubulointerstitium lesion in overlapping infection group,which suggested that infection of Mpe might have some possible connection with IgAN.
5.Association between Mycoplasma penetrans infection and clinicopathology of IgA nephropathy
Xue JIANG ; Feifei XU ; Huidi ZHANG ; Jianna ZHANG ; Yanling SHI ; Mei SUN
Chinese Journal of Nephrology 2011;27(7):484-487
Objective To study the association between Mycoplasma penetrans (Mpe) infection and clinicopathology of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Methods Blood samples of 118 IgAN patients, 90 patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and 89 healthy people were collected. Mpe DNA in serum was detected by PCR and positive samples were confirmed by Southern blotting. According to Mpe infection, IgAN patients were divided into positive and negative groups. Association between clinicopatholgical features of IgAN and Mpe infection was examined.Results Significantly higher Mpe positive rate was found in IgAN group as compared to CKD and healthy groups (16.0% vs 2.2% and 1.1%, P<0.01). In Mpe positive group, 42.1% patients presented macroscopic hematuria, which was significantly higher than that in Mpe negative group (P<0.01). While Mpe negative group had greater proteinuria, higher serum creatinine level, higher Lee grading of pathology compared to Mpe positive group. There were no differences of tubulointerstitial lesions and arteriole hypertrophy between two groups. Conclusions IgAN patients have higher Mpe infection rate than CKD patients and healthy people. Mpe positive IgAN patients have more macroscopic hematuria. Mpe infection may be associated with the pathogenesis of IgAN.
6.A Low Temperature Plasma-assisted CataluminescenceSensor for Detection of Ethylene
Kang SHAO ; Feifei HAN ; Xue ZHAO ; Shuwei WANG ; Zi LONG ; Na NA
Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry 2017;45(6):862-867
Based on the plasma activation and the sensing ability of cataluminescence, a low temperature plasma-assisted cataluminescence sensor was developed for ethylene detection using the low-cost and abundant alkaline-earth oxides of MgO nanomaterials as the sensing materials.Taking advantage of the high activity of the plasma, the working temperature of this method was greatly decreased than that of traditional detection method (300-500℃), and the sensing of ethylene was realized at room temperature without any heating device.This ethylene cataluminescence sensor gave a linear range of 112-4997 ng/mL (90-3998 ppm, R=0.97669) with a detection limit of 37 ng/mL (30 ppm).Besides, the sensor showed good selectivity and stability in ethylene detection.Due to the absence of the heating element, the present sensor was simple, rapid, low-cost, low energy-consumption and stable for ethylene sensing.This study improved the applicability of cataluminescence sensors and might promote the development of cataluminescence sensors.
7.Comparison of the clinical characteristics of ovarian lymphoma and ovarian cancer with bulk lymph node involvement
Feifei GAO ; Lei GUO ; Kai XUE ; Weiqi SHENG ; Wei WANG ; Mujie LI ; Zhong ZHENG ; Ziting LI
China Oncology 2017;27(4):281-286
Background and purpose: Ovarian lymphoma (OL) is usually misdiagnosed as ovarian cancer with bulk lymph node invasion (OC-BLN), and vice versa. Therefore, to distinguish these two types of disease, we compared their clinical characteristics in this study. Methods: This study retrospectively reviewed 14 OL and 14 OC-BLN patients from Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center and Shanghai Eighth People's Hospital. The clinical char-acteristics, image and laboratory examination data were compared. Results: There was no significant difference in age, symptom, fever, weight loss and volume of ascitic fluid between the two groups. Comparing with OC-BLN, OL patients have larger tumor in ovaries [(13.04±5.94) cm vs (7.78±6.38) cm, P=0.033], and higher percentage of solid ovarian tumor (85.71% vs 28.5%, P=0.006). Lactate dehydrogenase(LDH)/CA125 was higher in OL (7.66±8.03) than OC-BLN (0.31±0.27, P=0.009). Using LDH/CA125 to diagnose OL, area under the curve (AUC) was 0.952. When the threshold value was set at 1, the sensitivity and specificity was 91.7% and 100%, respectively. Conclusion: OL and OC-BLN are easily to be misdiagnosed. OL has larger and more solid tumor than OC-BLN. LDH/CA125 can help to distinguish these two diseases and guide clinical decision making.
8.Analysis of Constructing TCM Syndrome Complex Intervention Based on Text Mining and Interview Method
Feifei XUE ; Jiaxu CHEN ; Wenzhi HAO ; Lian GONG
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;20(11):1954-1957
The occurrence, development and outcome of most diseases are a complex process. It is the advantage of traditional Chinese medicine to establish complex interventions that are consistent with the characteristics of disease development. The specific steps are as follows: quantitative research on literature research, establishment of interview framework; focus on interviews, specificization of interview outlines; semi-structured interviews, preliminary construction of complex intervention programs; evaluation of efficacy of complex interventions. The introduction of semi-structured interviews and other qualitative research methods into the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine, combined with quantitative methods such as text analysis and data mining, is also helpful in formulating the standard of diagnosis and treatment system with Chinese characteristics.
9.Assiciation of myopia progression and sleep characteristics among lower grade primary school students in Shanghai
Chinese Journal of School Health 2024;45(5):727-731
Objective:
To study the impact of sleep characteristics on myopia, among lower primary school students in Shanghai, so as to provide foundation for the prevention of the onset and development of myopia.
Methods:
A total of 636 students from the first and second grades of two primary schools in Jiading District, Shanghai, were selected through cluster random sampling for questionnaire surveys and ophthalmological examinations in October 2022. The Childrens Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) was used to assess sleep quality at baseline. Ophthalmological examinations were conducted in October 2023(479), during which the students study time, screen time and outdoor activity time were monitored for twoweek, repeated twice. Generalized multivariable Logistic regression models and linear regression models were employed to examine the association between sleeprelated factors and myopia, as well as the strength of this association.
Results:
The baseline survey indicated a myopia prevalence of 18.58%, with 17.18% at followup. The average CSHQ total score was (51.58±4.44), and the average daily sleep duration was (9.43±4.84)h/d, with only 11.6% of participants meeting the recommended sleep sufficiency. Multivariable regression models indicated that insufficient sleep showed positive association with myopia (OR=1.64, 95%CI=1.05-2.56), while bedtime duration was significantly negative associated with myopia (OR=0.74, 95%CI=0.63-0.91, P<0.05), adjusting for confounding factors. Inconsistency in bed rest time was a risk factor for myopia (OR=1.07, P<0.05), and the consistency of bed rest time, and wakeup time showed statistically significant correlations with SE (P<0.05). There was also statistically significant correlations between consistency in sleep time, bed rest time, and wakeup time with AL (P<0.05).
Conclusions
Insufficient sleep and bedtime duration are correlated with the onset and progression of myopia. It is critical to ensure sufficient sleep duration and regular sleep habits for children to reduce the occurrence of myopia in the primary school students.
10.Research Progress on Rehmanniae Radix Preparata
Bo WANG ; Chenzi LV ; Meijing HE ; Feifei XUE ; Shuosheng ZHANG
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;20(6):1010-1017
This paper is based on the literature of the last ten years by summarizing and analyzing the progress in the study of Rehmanniae Radix, focusing on the research progress are reviewed at the dynamic changes of the main Chemical indicators of Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, objective expression of four kinds of processed products (Steamed, steamed with wine, wine stew, ancient law (steamed for nine times and shined for nine times) ) and the objective expression of four kinds of processed products and the change of the pharmacological effects.There are many objective expression methods for processing end points of different processed products of Rehmanniae Radix Preparata, But processing are unclear until now. Innovative research on standardized unification and new research ideas are needed.