1.Use of Microbial Ecological Agent in Treatment of Noninfectious Diarrhea
Chinese Journal of Gastroenterology 2016;21(6):369-371
Noninfectious diarrhea is a kind of digestive disease caused by many factors and the main clinical features are increased frequency of defecation and change of character of stool,most of the patients have intestinal microecological imbalance. Improving the intestinal microecological balance is very important in the treatment of noninfectious diarrhea. Microbial ecological agent(MEA)has definite efficacy for the treatment of noninfectious diarrhea,and gradually becomes the commonly used drug for noninfectious diarrhea in clinical practice. This article reviewed the use of MEA in the treatment of noninfectious diarrhea.
2.Exploration of the Effective Ways of Strengthening Medical Humanities Education in the Process of Talent Cultivation
Chinese Medical Ethics 2017;30(4):509-511
With the change of modern medical model and the rapid development of medical technology,medical humanities education in higher medical education has obviously been weakened and has obvious deficiencies.We should fully understand the importance and the necessity of medical humanities education during cultivating medical students.We should also improve medical humanities curriculum system,construct teaching staff combining with different majors,intensify the cultivation of humanistic quality in practice and organically combine ideological and political with humanistic education,and perfect evaluation system,etc.Inall We should explore the effective way of medical humanities education in many aspects.
3.Progress on diabetic cognitive dysfunction
Meng WANG ; Wenjun JI ; Lina CHEN
Basic & Clinical Medicine 2015;(2):240-243
Diabetic cognitive dysfunction is one of the important complications of diabetes mellitus .Insulin plays an important protective role in cognitive function through MAPK and PI 3-K/Akt signaling pathway .Insulin resistance may give rise to excessive tau protein phosphorylation , formation of neurofibrillary tangles inhibits insulin degrading enzyme , reduces the degradation of amyloid β;enhances oxidative stress , further damages the integrity of the neu-ronal structure and function and eventually leads to cognitive dysfunction .
4.Voltage-gated potassium channels in cognitive dysfunction
Wenhui YAN ; Meng WANG ; Lina CHEN
Journal of Medical Postgraduates 2015;(11):1218-1222
The growing number of cognitive dysfunction patients is bringing heavy mental and financial burdens to the society and families.Voltage-gated potassium channels (Kv), which consist of delayed rectifier potassium channels and transient outward po -tassium channels , are involved in the incidence of cognitive dysfunction .This review summarized the role of Kv channels in cognitive dysfunction and their relationship with N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptors ( NMDARs) that play an important role in the process of learning and memory .
5.Progress in Defining Treatment Endpoint of Crohn’s Disease
Liang ZHAO ; Xiaojian WANG ; Lina MENG
Chinese Journal of Gastroenterology 2015;(5):304-307
Crohn’s disease( CD)is a gastrointestinal progressive granulomatous disease with unknown etiology. It is characterized as active stage alternating with remission stage,long-term course with many complications,sometimes needing surgery and having the tendency of relapse in patient ’s whole life. Therefore,it is important to define an effective therapeutic endpoint to ameliorate the natural course of CD. This article reviewed the progress in defining treatment endpoint of CD.
6.Role of Environmental Factors in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Xiaojian WANG ; Liang ZHAO ; Lina MENG
Chinese Journal of Gastroenterology 2015;(3):174-176
Inflammatory bowel disease( IBD)includes ulcerative colitis( UC)and Crohn’s disease( CD),its incidence is increasing yearly in our country. With the progress of molecular biology,genetics,the understanding of IBD is deepen,however,the exact pathogenesis of IBD is still not fully clear,and it may be related to gene,environment, immunity,microorganism. Studies have shown that smoking,vitamin D,sex hormones,emotions,diet may be related with the occurrence of IBD. This article reviewed the role of environmental factors in IBD.
7.A meta-analysis of radiofrequency ablation for early hepatocelluar carcinoma
Xuan HUANG ; Bin Lü ; Lina MENG
Chinese Journal of Internal Medicine 2008;47(3):217-220
Objective To compare the effectiveness and safety of radiofrenquency ablation(RFA) with other therapeutic methods for patients with early hepatocelluar carcinoma(HCC). Methods Randomized clinical trials(RCTs)which compared the efficacy or safety of RFA with other therapeutic methods for primary hepatocellular carcinoma in Cochrane library,EMBASE,PubMed,OVID and CBM were searched.Trials were considered of high quality if methodological quality score was 3 or more according to Jadad standard.Statistical heterogeneity between trials was evaluated bv STATA 9.0 and considered to exist when P<0.1.Heterogeneity of the included articles was tested and used to select proper effective model for calculation.Sensitivity analysis was performed and publication bias was investigated through visual inspection of funnel plots and Egger regression model.Results Six RCTs including 862 cases were analyzed.As compared with other therapeutic approaches,RFA significandy increased 3-year overall survival rate and reduced local recurrence rate of early hepatocelluar carcinoma:the total OR were 2.06(95%CI being 1.54-2.77,P=0.000)and 0.40(95%CI being 0.28-0.57,P=0.000)respectively.As compared with other therapeutic approaches,the total OR of new HCC recurrence rates,extrahepatic metastasis rate and major complications in patients with HCC treated with RFA were 0.92 (95%CI being 0.68-1.24),0.98(95%CI being 0.30-3.22),1.35(95%CI being 0.49-3.77)respectively,showing no significant differences(P>0.05).Inspection of the funnel plots for all outcome measures did not reveal evidence of publication bias(P=0.670,0.160,0.884,0.087,0.317,respectively,by Egger regression model).Conclusions RFA is superior to other treatment methods with respect to local recurrence and 3 year overall survival in early HCC and is the preferred tberapeutic method for small HCC because it is minimally invasive,simple and convenient.
8.Relationship of nurse structural empowerment, psychological empowerment and job burnout
Lina MENG ; Yanhui LIU ; Ketefian SHAKE
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;22(7):649-652
Objective To explore the relationship among structural empowerment,psychological empowerment and nurses' job burnout,and to provide new approach for relieving nurses' job burnout.Methods Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-Ⅱ (CWEQ-Ⅱ),Psychological Empowerment Scale (PES),and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were used to investigate 233 nurses working at three general tertiary-level hospitals in Tianjin.Results The total scores of structural empowerment,psychological empowerment,and burnout were (43.498 ±9.977),(38.871 ±7.052) and (45.489 ± 11.331),respectively.Relevant Analysis results showed that structural empowerment,psychological empowerment and nurses' job burnout had significant correlation,and the absolute value of coefficient of correlation between 0.358-0.560.The structural equation modeling results showed that fit indexes for fully mediating effect model were excellent(x2 =57.703,x2/df =1.202,GFI =0.965,AGFI =0.933,NFI =0.948,RFI =0.916,IFI =0.991,TLI =0.985,CFI =0.991,RMSEA =0.030,CN =263).Structural empowerment had a positive significant influence on psychological empowerment; structural empowerment and psychological empowerment had a negative significant influence on nurses' job burnout; psychological empowerment played a fully mediating role between structural empowerment and nurses' job burnout.Conclusion Nurse psychological empowerment has direct effect on job burnout.Nurse structrual empowerment affects job burnout via the full effects of psychological empowerment.
9.Correlation between psychological states and coping styles of primary caregivers of stroke patients
Lina DU ; Hong XU ; Shihong YUE ; Lingling MENG
Modern Clinical Nursing 2013;(1):35-39
Objective To study the correlation between psychological state and coping styles of primary caregivers of stroke patients.Method 286 primary caregivers were screened out by the random sampling method for the investigation of their psychological states and coping styles using SCL-90 and the medical coping modes questionnaire(MCMQ).Results There were significant differences between primary caregivers and Chinese norm in terms of all factors(P<0.01).The major caregivers with higher education were scored significantly lower than those with less education on the factors of depression,anxiety,hostility,fear,psychoticism (P<0.01).There were significant different differences between primary caregivers and Chinese norm in coping style(P<0.01): the score on confrontation in the coping style lower than the norm while the score on avoidance in the coping style higher than in norm.The confrontation and avoidance in the primary caregivers were negatively correlated to the factors of SCL-90(P<0.05)and yielding in the coping style positively to the factors of SCL-90(P<0.05).Conclusions The primary caregivers of stroke patients are at the poor psychological states and they tend to take the passive and negative coping styles.The more they take active coping style,the better their mental states grow and vise versa.Therefore,the caregivers need professional training so that they can use the supports from their families and be encouraged to speak out their poor moods.Post-discharge visits to them,besides,are helpful for the improved psychological states for the improvement of their quality of life.
10.Effects of transcutaneous electro acupuncture stimulation on esophageal motility of forty-five patients with refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease
Shanshan CHEN ; Bin LYU ; Liang ZHAO ; Xiaojian WANG ; Lina MENG
Chinese Journal of Digestion 2016;36(4):246-250
Objective To investigate the effects of transcutaneous electro acupuncture stimulation (TEA) on esophageal motility of patients with refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease (RGERD) by high resolution manometry (HRM),and to provide a new treatment option for RGERD.Methods From February 2014 to June 2015,a total of 45 patients with RGERD were enrolled.TEA instrument was used for electro acupuncture stimulation at the points of Zusanli and Neiguan.HRM was carried out before and after treatment.The changes of HRM parameters such as lower esophageal sphincter pressure (LESP),distal contractile integral (DCI),and amplitude of 3 cm,7 cm above lower esophageal sphincter (LES),esophageal body velocity and contractile front velocity (CFV) were also compared.The paired-samples t test was performed for statistical analysis.Results According to LESP value,45 patients were divided into low LESP group (10 patients) and normal LESP group (35 patients).According to parameter of esophageal motility function,patients were divided into esophageal dysmotility group (25 patients) and normal esophageal motility group (20 patients).After TEA treatment,the LESP of lower LESP group was (14.83± 4.17) mmHg (1 mmHg =0.133 kPa),which was higher than that before treatment ((9.54 ±2.42) mmHg),and the difference was statistically significant (t=4.92,P=0.001).LESP of esophageal dysmotility group was (19.04±5.91) mmHg,which was higher than that before treatment ((16.20±6.09) mmHg),and the difference was statistically significant (t=4.92,P=0.001).There was no statistically significant difference in LESP of normal LESP group and normal esophageal motility group before and after treatment (both P>0.05).After treatment,DCI of esophageal dysmotility group was (530.76±215.53) mmHg· cm· s,which was higher than that before treatment ((363.92 ± 279.17) mmHg · cm · s),and the difference was statistically significant (t=2.86,P<0.05).There was no statistically significant difference in esophageal body velocity,amplitude of 3 cm,7 cm above LES andCFV before and after treatment (all P>0.05).There was no statistically significant difference in all of the esophageal motility parameters in normal esophageal motility group before and after treatment (all P>0.05).Conclusion TEA can increase LESP and DCI in RGERD patients with esophageal motility dysfunction,improve contraction of entire esophagus and raise esophageal clearance capacity.