ObjectiveTo study the diagnosis and treatment of primary retroperitoneal tumor ( PRT) and the key for preventing and treating of recurrent retroperitoneal tumor (PRT).MethodsThe clinical data of 42 patients with PRT operated on from 1990 to 2000 were retrospectively analyzed.ResultTumors were benign in 19 patients and malignant in 23. Of the 19 patients with benign tumor, 15 underwent complete resection with incidental organ resection in 3 cases, palliative resection in 1 case, and complete resection of recurrent tumor in one. Of the 23 malignant tumors, complete resection was performed in 9 cases, complete resection with incidental organs resection in 11 cases, biopsy only in 3 cases. There was no operative death.ConclusionPreoperative imaging results are gists on which the resectability is judged, and complete resection is the only hope of cure. Surgical resection is the therapy of choice for postoperative recurrent PRT.

ObjectiveTo investigate the causes and management of postsplenectomy continuous fever in portal hypertensive patients. MethodThe clinical data of 329 portal hypertension patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing splenectomy from 1992 to 2001 were reviewed. Among those, 72 patients suffered from a fever higher than 38.5℃ for more than 2 weeks postoperatively. ResultThe most common cause was portal or splenic vein thrombosis and hematocele or hydrops and infection in splenic recess. Portal or splenic vein thrombosis was related to the surgical modality adopted and liver function. ConclusionPortal system thrombosis and hematocele, hydrops, or infection in the splenic recess were among the most common causes leading to postoperative long-term fever in these patients. Active anticoagulant use, effective drainage, antibiotic therapy and judicious application of surgical modality will help to reduce the rate of postoperative fever.

Objective:To investigate the clinical effect of esophagofundostomy combined with pericardial devascularization in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by portal hypertension.Methods:The clinical data of 108 patients with portal hypertension admitted to the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University from Feb 2009 to Feb 2015 were analyzed. Among them 42 patients underwent esophagofundostomy combined with pericardial devascularization as the study group, and 66 patients underwent pericardial devascularization only as the control group. All patients presented with splenomegaly or hypersplenism; the spleen was routinely removed during the operation.Results:The difference of operation time between the study group and the control group was statistically significant [(157±41) min vs. (143±27) min, t=2.81, P<0.05]. The improvement in the esophagogastric varices in the study group within 6 months was significantly better than that in the control group( Z=2.47, P<0.05). In addition, the rebleeding rates of varicose veins within 1, 3 and 5 years in the study group was 2%, 5% and 10%, while that in the control group was 15%, 21% and 26% (χ 2=5.49, 4.27, 4.31, all P<0.05). Conclusions:Esophagofundostomy combined with pericardia devascularization achieves complete devascularization and low rebleeding rate.

Objective To examine the expression of CD9 protein in pancreatic cancer tissues and adjacent tissues,and to analyze its relation with the progress and prognosis of pancreatic cancer.Methods From September 2005 to December 2009,surgical resected cancer tissues and adjacent tissues of 90 patients with pancreatic cancer and their clinical data were collected.The expression of CD9 protein in pancreatic cancer tissues and adjacent tissues was detected by immunohistochemistry,and its relationship with clinicopathological features was analyzed.Chi-square test was performed for comparison of ratios between groups.Overall survival (OS) analysis of 90 patients after surgery was performed.Results The high expression rate of CD9 protein (64.4％,58/90) in cancer tissue was significantly higher than that in cancer adjacent tissue (45.6％,41/90),the difference has statistically significant (χ2 =6.847,P＜0.05).CD9 protein was highly expressed in most of pancreatic cancer tissue which was well differentiated or without lymph node metastasis (74.6％ (50/67) vs 39.1％ (9/23),χz =9.554,P＜0.01; 50.0％(17/34) vs 73.2％(41/56),χ2 =5.856,P＜0.05 respectively).However,the expression of CD9 was not correlated with gender and age (both P＞0.05).OS and progression-free survival (PFS) of the patients with CD9 highly expressed were significantly longer than those with low expression of CD9 (median OS:33.0 months vs 7.0 months,χ2 =15.400 P＜0.01.Median PFS:30.5 months vs 5.0 months,χ2 =13.750,P＜0.01).Conclusion CD9 protein is a kind of protein related with the invasive ability of pancreatic cancer,which may play a role in progression and metastasis of pancreatic cancer and can help to determine the prognosis to a certain extent.

BACKGROUND:Reperfusion injury salvage kinase (RISK) pathway plays an important role in protective mechanism against ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) induced by both ischemic pre-and post-conditioning. Many researches have been carried out on RISK pathway mechanism underlying ischemic post-conditioning conferring cardioprotection against IRI;however, there is less research about its effect on IRI in the skeletal muscle.
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the protective effect of an optimized protocol of ischemic post-conditioning on IRI in rat skeletal muscle and its underlying mechanism.
METHODS:Eighteen male Sprague-Dawley rats were equivalently randomized into IRI, ischemic post-conditioning and control groups. Rats were given occlusion or disocclusion of the right femoral artery of the right lower limb. Subsequently, the IRI group rats were subjected to 24 hours of reperfusion;the ischemic post-conditioning group immediately given 4 cycles of 30 seconds reperfusion/30 seconds ischemia, followed by 24 hours of reperfusion;the control group given no intervention.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Hematoxylin-eosin staining showed that in the ischemic post-conditioning group, the morphology of muscle fibers changed little, with fewer inflammatory lesions and milder edema compared with the IRI group. The infarct size with TTC staining in the ischemic post-conditioning group was smaller than that in the IRI group. Western blot analysis revealed that the expressions of phospho-Akt and phosphorylated endothelial nitric oxide synthase-S1177 were significantly increased, but the expression of phosphorylated type endothelial nitric oxide synthase-Thr495 was much decreased in the ischemic post-conditioning group compared with the IRI group. The measurement of mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening with Ca2+induction showed that the absorbance values in the ischemic post-conditioning group were significantly lower than those in the IRI group (P<0.05). These results indicate that ischemia-reperfusion injury can be improved by applying an optimal protocol of ischemic post-conditioning in rat skeletal muscle. The underlying mechanism may be associated with the activation of RISK signaling pathway to inhibit opening of mitochondrial permeability transition pore, thereby contributing to the enhanced tolerance to IRI in rat skeletal muscle.

BACKGROUND: Ischemic postconditioning protects the myocardium from ischemia/recursion injury via maintaining 3-minute acidosis initially. But its effect on the skeletal muscle remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To dynamically measure the pH values in rat skeletal muscle after ischemia, and then to simulate acidic perfusate infusion to investigate the effect of ischemic postconditioning on ischemia/reperfusion injury. METHODS: Based on the ischemia/reperfusion injury model and ischemic postconditioning protocol in previous study, dynamic measurement of pH values in rat skeletal muscle was conducted using pH instrument at the global ischemia, ischemic postconditioning (30/30 seconds) and reperfusion period, and then the acidic perfusate equivalent to pH in ischemic postconditioning period was prepared with lactic acid and normal saline. Twenty-five healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into sham, ischemia/reperfusion, ischemic postconditioning, lactic acid, and normal saline groups (n=5 per group). Blood samples were collected to detect lactate dehydrogenase level. The samples from gastrocnemius were harvested to calculate the wet/dry ratio, level of myeloperoxidase, and infarct size through triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining. The samples from the right tibialis anterior muscle were taken to detect the expression level of Erk1/2 in the MAPK signaling pathway by western blot assay. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A prolonged acidic platform was detected in the early reperfusion during ischemic postconditioning, on which the pH value was 6.81±0.133, and the duration was 2 minutes and 40 seconds. The levels of lactate dehydrogenase and myeloperoxidase as well as the wet/dry ratio in the ischemic postconditioning and lactic acid groups were significantly lower than those in the ischemia/reperfusion group (P < 0.05). Western blot assay results showed that the expression level of p-Erk in the ischemic postconditioning, lactic acid and normal saline groups was significantly higher than that in the ischemia/reperfusion group (P < 0.05). Triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining results showed that compared with the ischemia/reperfusion group, the infarct area was significantly reduced in the postconditioning and lactic acid groups (P < 0.05). These findings suggest the existence of a short acidosis during ischemic postconditioning in the early reperfusion, and acidic perfusate can simulate the ischemic postconditioning and effectively attenuate ischemia/reperfusion injury in the rat skeletal muscle via activating Erk1/2 in RISK signaling pathway.

Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of two kinds of homemade sirolimus-eluting stents (Firebird and Excel) for treatment of acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods The 249 consecutive patients with STEMI who underwent PCI were randomly divided into two groups: Excel group (n=136) and Firebird group (n=113). They were followed up for 6-24 months, and coronary angiography was reviewed average 12 months later. The primary endpoints were major adverse cardiac events, including death, reinfarction and target vessel revascularization. The second endpoints included late luminal loss and restenosis 12 months after treatment. Results There were no significant differences in baseline data, coronary arterial lesion before operation, and immediateness condition after PCI between the two groups (all P＞0.05). Within follow-up, there were 2 (1.47%) death cases and 1 (0.88%) death case, 1 (0.74%) and 1 (0.88%) nonfatal myocardial infarction case, 2 (1.47%) and 2 (1.77%) target vessel revascularization cases in the two groups respectively (all P＞0.05). There were no significant differences in late luminal loss of in-stent and in-segment, the rates of in-stent restenosis, in-segment restenosis and stent thrombosis, the in-stent minimal lumen diameter and in-segment minimal lumen diameter between the two groups (all P＞0.05). Conclusions The two kinds of homemade sirolimus-eluting stents may have similar efficacy and safety in patients with STEMI treated with primary PCI.

Objective With multi?center investigation, to assess the life quality of patients with maintained hemodialysis (MHD) in Liaoning Province and to explore the relationship among the mineral metabolism, the life quality of the patients with MHD, and the repeated hospitalization within the latest three years. Methods 1192 patients with hemodialysis (at least 3 months) from January to March in 2015 at ten blood purification centers in Liaoning Province were selected for the cross?————————sectional survey. The Kidney Health?related Quality of Life (HRQOL) version 1.3 was used to evaluate the MHD patients' life quality. The total length of hospitalization was divided into four groups: 0 days, 3 to 15 days, 16 to 30 days and above 30 days. Results When serum calcium value ranged from 2.1 to 2.5 mmol/L, kidney?disease component summary (KDCS), mental component summary (MCS), physical component summary (PCS) and SF?36+KDCS corresponded to a higher value (P<0.05). When serum phosphorus value ranged from 1.13 to 1.78 mmol/L, KDCS and SF?36+KDCS corresponded to a higher value (P<0.05). When the calcium phosphorus product value ranged from 40.68 to 49.94, MCS corresponded to a higher value (P<0.05). KDCS showed a linear correlation with age (P<0.001), dialysis age, serum calcium (less than or equal to 2.5 mmol/L) (P<0.05); PCS showed a linear correlation with age (P<0.001) and dialysis age (P<0.05); SF?36+KDCS showed a linear correlation with age (P<0.001), and serum calcium (less than or equal to 2.5 mmol/L) (P<0.05), while age and dialysis age were negatively correlated. The hospitalization days showed a linear correlation with age, dialysis age (P<0.001) and serum phosphorus, calcium phosphorus product value (P<0.05), while dialysis age and calcium phosphorus product value were negatively correlated. Among different groups of total hospitalization days in three years, age, hemodialysis age, serum calcium, serum phosphorus, calcium?phosphorus product value and quality of life values were all statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusions The life quality of patients with MHD were correlated with serum calcium, phosphorus, calcium and phosphorus product value, iPTH, dialysis age and age, while age and dialysis age were of negative correlation. The total number of hospitalization days in 3 years was closely linearly correlated with age and dialysis age, significantly correlated with serum phosphorus, calcium and phosphorus product value, while dialysis age, calcium and phosphorus product value were in a negative correlation. The total number of hospitalization in 3 years was correlated with the patients' age, dialysis age, serum calcium, serum phosphorus, calcium and phosphorus product value and quality of life.

Osteoarthritis (OA), in which M1 macrophage polarization in the synovium exacerbates disease progression, is a major cause of cartilage degeneration and functional disabilities. Therapeutic strategies of OA designed to interfere with the polarization of macrophages have rarely been reported. Here, we report that SHP099, as an allosteric inhibitor of src-homology 2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase 2 (SHP2), attenuated osteoarthritis progression by inhibiting M1 macrophage polarization. We demonstrated that M1 macrophage polarization was accompanied by the overexpression of SHP2 in the synovial tissues of OA patients and OA model mice. Compared to wild-type (WT) mice, myeloid lineage conditional Shp2 knockout (cKO) mice showed decreased M1 macrophage polarization and attenuated severity of synovitis, an elevated expression of cartilage phenotype protein collagen II (COL2), and a decreased expression of cartilage degradation markers collagen X (COL10) and matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP3) in OA cartilage. Further mechanistic analysis showed thatSHP099 inhibited lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling mediated by nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) and PI3K-AKT signaling. Moreover, intra-articular injection of SHP099 also significantly attenuated OA progression, including joint synovitis and cartilage damage. These results indicated that allosteric inhibition of SHP2 might be a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of OA.