According to topographic anatomy, pathogenesis and by retrieving, summarizing and analyzing literature regarding needle-knife and needles with knife-edge for carotid cardiac syndrome, it is found out that clinical misdiagnosis rate of carotid cardiac syndrome is considerably high. Needle-knife and needles with knife-edge could significantly improve the clinical symptoms of carotid cardiac syndrome, showing characteristic and advantage in treatment, but it is deficient in technique standard and efficacy criteria that should be united and authoritative. Researches regarding pathogenesis of carotid cardiac syndrome are not systematic. Clinical observation regarding long-term efficacy and relapse of needle-knife and needles with knife-edge treatment is rare. It is believed that the awareness on carotid cardiac syndrome should be increased to reduce misdiagnosis; scientific and standardized technique standard and efficacy criteria should be established; systematic and comprehensive researches regarding mechanism of needle-knife and needles with knife-edge for carotid cardiac syndrome should be launched; besides, clinical discussion regarding its long-term efficacy should start to provide a better clinical guideline.
Acupuncture Therapy ; instrumentation ; methods ; Heart Diseases ; therapy ; Humans ; Needles ; Treatment Outcome

Objective To investigate the expression of glucose transporters 1 (GLUT-1) in gastric cancer and its relation with clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis. Methods PubMed, Web of Science,EMbase,Cochrane Library,WanFang Databases and China National Knowledge Internet(CNKI)were used to search literatures about GLUT-1 and gastric cancer. From the day of establishment to May 15, 2017, according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 2 researchers independently screened studies, extracted data and assessed quality of the included studies. Effect value and 95 % CI was calculated respectively. Then Meta-analysis was conducted by using RevMan5.3 software. Results A total of 11 articles were enrolled, including 1 714 cases in the gastric cancer group and 431 cases in the normal gastric mucosa group. The results of Meta-analysis showed that GLUT-1 expression was higher in the gastric cancer group than that in the normal group, and there was a significant difference (OR= 24.23, 95 % CI 11.86-49.51, P< 0.000 01). The expression of GLUT-1 was not related with age, gender, tumor size and invasion depth (all P> 0.05), but related with differentiated degree (OR= 0.41, 95 % CI 0.25-0.67, P= 0.000 4), lymphatic metastasis (OR=5.11, 95 % CI 2.73-9.56, P<0.000 1), and TNM staging (OR= 0.32, 95 % CI 0.20-0.51, P< 0.000 01). Moreover, GLUT-1 had a correlation with the overall survival rate of gastric cancer (HR= 1.61, 95 % CI 1.30-1.99, P < 0.000 1). Conclusions GLUT-1 protein expression is higher in gastric cancer tissues than that in normal gastric mucosa, and it is related to tumor differentiation degree, lymph node metastasis, TNM staging.Besides,GLUT-1 may be correlated with poor prognosis of patients with gastric cancer.