The outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in February 2003 in Guangdong, China, middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) in September2012 in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the current COVID-19 pandemics in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, are all caused by coronaviruses, and patients primarily died of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Compared with more than 5 years of wreaking havoc from MERS-CoV and Ebor, China successfully contains the SARS-CoV within one year, which shows her advantages in political governance controlling such pandemics. Many coronaviruses have been separated and their molecular structures analyzed. However, there is no specific anti-coronavirus drug developed in the world since the outbreaks. The problems come from not only pharmaceutical technology per se that must treat both coronaviruses and their life-threatening ARDS, but also the small size of patients who could immune against the coronaviruses after infections resulting in pharmaceutical reluctance to invest in the area. Facing both the pharmaceutical and social-economic bottlenecks, here, we summarized the current development of anti-coronavirus drugs, and proposed the strategies of repurposing existing drugs and preparing their pharmacological combinations to fight the viruses including COVID-19 based on a well-understanding of how the coronaviruses enter the host and damage our respiratory system.

Objective To explore the effect of chest circumference index adjusting tube voltage techniquey on image quality and radiation dose at coronary CTA. Methods One hundred and twenty consecutive patients [body mass index(BMI)<25 kg/m2] with suspected coronary heart disease (CHD) undergoing coronary CT angiography were prospectively selected and divided into 2 groups at random:conventional group and low dose group. Low dose group was divided into the following three subgroups according to different chest circumferences:A group(<80 cm, n=16), B group(80 to 90 cm, n=44) and C group (>90 cm, n=20). All patients were examined by coronary CTA. The patients in conventional group were performed using retrospective ECG-gating technology and reconstructed by filtered back projection algorithm. The tube voltage/tube current was 120 kV/1 000 mAs. Prospective ECG?gating technology and iterative algorithm reconstruction were used in low dose group. The tube voltages/currents were 80 kV/150 mAs, 100 kV/150 mAs, 120 kV/150 mAs in A, B, C group, respectively. Image quality was assessed by subjective evaluation (image quality score) and objective evaluation (signal?to?noise ratio).The effective radiation dose was calculated. Analyses of the differences between groups were compared with image quality, radiation dose by single factor variance and Wilcoxon signed ranks test.Results The image quality scores and signal?to?noise ratio of aorta were respectively (3.47 ± 0.38), (3.48 ± 0.27), (3.45 ± 0.32), (3.46±0.29) and (15.5±3.6), (15.8±3.6), (15.8±4.1), (16.2±3.9) in conventional, A, B and C groups, there was no statistical difference between the four groups (P=0.24, 0.43). The effective radiation dose of four groups were respectively (17.15 ± 3.25), (0.88 ± 0.02), (1.38 ± 0.05), (2.32 ± 0.04) mSv, the difference was statistically significant (P=0.02). The effective radiation dose of A, B, C group was significantly lower than that in the conventional group. Conclusion Chest circumference index adjusting tube voltages technology at coronary CT angiography can effectively reduce the effective radiation without compromise of image quality.

Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of crizotinib in patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC),and focuse on analysis of its prognostic factors.Methods Fifty patients with advanced (stage m B-Ⅳ) ALK-positive NSCLC confirmed by cytology or histology in Peking Union Medical Collage Hospital from January 2013 to September 2016 were collected.The relevant clinical imformation and treatment protocols were recorded.The efficacy and safety of crizotinib were followed up,and its prognostic factors were analyzed.Results At the end of follow-up,the median progression free survival (PFS) of progressed patients (n =24) was 9.6 months (95％ CI:8.3-10.9 months),of which five patients died.The median follow-up time of non-progressed patients (n =26) was 10.7 months.The most common adverse event was abnormal liver function (48.0％,24/50).In the single factor analysis of Kaplan-Meier,younger or equal to 40 years old patients had a longer PFS (P =0.017),and the COX regression analysis (Enter method) also had statistical significance differences (HR =6.1,95％ CI:1.4-27.5,P =0.018).However,gender (HR =0.8,95％ CI:0.2-2.6,P =0.697),smoking history (HR =1.5,95％ CI:0.4-5.6,P =0.524),pathology (HR =1.1,95％ CI:0.3-4.2,P =0.922),tumor stage (HR =1.7,95％ CI:0.4-8.4,P =0.502),epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutant type (HR =0.4,95％ CI:0.4-4.3,P =0.461),EGFR unknown (HR =1.3,95％ CI:0.3-6.1,P =0.727),Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG) PS score (HR =2.0,95％ CI:0.6-6.8,P =0.290),the status of previous treatment (HR =0.6,95％ CI:0.2-1.8,P =0.385) and brain metastasis (HR=0.7,95％CI:0.1-3.2,P=0.628) were not associated with disease progression Conclusion Crizotinib has good efficacy and is safe and well-tolerated to advanced ALK-positive NSCLC patients,and age is the independent prognostic factor.

Objective To explore the clinical value of the dual-low-dose with low tube voltage for head and neck CTA. Methods One hundred and sixty patients who were clinically suspected head and neck vascular disease underwent CTA procedure were propective selected, and whose body mass index (BMI) was also lower than 25 kg/m2. Forty cases were randomly selected as conventional group(120 kV,150 mAs, iodine 320 mg/ml), the other 120 cases were as the low dose group. The low dose group divided into three subgroups according to the random number table method, which were low iodine group (37 cases;120 kV,150 mAs, iodine 270 mg/ml), low tube voltage group (42 cases;100 kV,150 mAs, iodine 320 mg/ml) and low iodine and tube voltage group (41 cases;100 kV,150 mAs, iodine 270 mg/ml). The carotid bifurcated CT value, standard deviation (SD), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), iodine intake and effective radiation dose (ED) of the four groups were recorded,all data undertook statistical analysis useing one-way ANOVA. Meanwhile, the subjective image quality score was applied to evaluate the image quality, and the differences among groups were compared by Wilcoxon signed ranks test. Results The image quality score were (2.85±0.19),(2.33 ± 0.34),(2.26 ± 0.32),(2.87 ± 0.22) in the four groups, and there was no statistical difference between groups(P>0.05).The carotid bifurcated CT value were respectively (380±30),(314±27),(514±52) and (425±28) HU in conventional, low iodine, low tube voltage and dual-low-dose groups, and the iodine intake were (18.85±2.10), (15.75±1.78), (18.53±1.98), (15.62±1.92) g, the ED of the four groups were (1.74±0.14), (1.73± 0.11), (1.32 ± 0.08) and (1.35 ± 0.09) mSv, the difference were all statistically significant (P<0.01). Furthermore, the iodine intake and the effective radiation dose in dual-low-dose group were significantly lower than the conventational group. Conclusions Head-and-neck CTA with dual-low-dose scan can provide same quality images as using 100 kV and high dose iodine contrast agent, and which also significantly reduced the ED and iodine intake greatly. Thus, this scanning program has great clinical value.

Objective To explore the indications for percutaneous renal biopsy of asymptomatic hematuria in children. Methods The renal pathological types of 485 children with asymptomatic hematuria were analyzed retrospectively. According to the degree of hematuria and whether or not combined with proteinuria, the children were divided into microscopic hematuria group, gross hematuria group and hematuria with proteinuria group. The microscopic hematuria group was further divided into urine red blood cell<15/HPF group, (15～30)/HPF group, and >30/HPF group according to hematuria degree. Results In 227 males and 258 females with the average age of 7.23±2.93 years, there were 318 cases in microscopic hematuria group, in which the most common pathological types were minor lesions (64.8%), followed by focal glomerular lesions (16.7%) and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (8.2%). There were 119 cases in gross hematuria group, in which the most common pathological types were also minor lesions (26.1%), followed by IgA nephropathy (24.4%) and mesangial proliferative glomerulopathy (20.2%). There were 48 cases in hematuria with proteinuria group, in which the most common pathological types were IgA nephropathy (29.2%) and minor lesions (29.2%). The distribution of the pathological types among microscopic hematuria group, gross hematuria group and hematuria with proteinuria group were statistically different (χ2=152.03, P<0.001). In three groups, microscopic hematuria group had the highest proportion of minor lesions, while gross hematuria group and hematuria with proteinuria group had higher proportion of IgA nephropathy and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis . In microscopic hematuria group, there were 149 children with urine red blood cell<15/HPF, 96 with urine red blood cell (15～30)/HPF, and 73 with urine red blood cell >30/HPF. There was no difference in pathological types among three sub-groups (χ2=15.18, P=0.51), and mild lesions were the most common pathological types in each group. Conclusion Renal biopsy should be performed at earliest possible time to make pathological diagnosis in asymptomatic hematuria children with gross hematuria or proteinuria.

Objective:To analyze the health development plans of the provinces in China during the " 14th Five-Year Plan" , and explore the key tasks, similarities and differences of health informatization construction in each province.Methods:Using the website of local people′s government and the official website of the provincial Health Commission, 27 copies of health development plans of various provinces during the " 14th Five-Year Plan" period were retrieved and collected from February 16 to June 5, 2022. The relevant statements of health information in the plan were extracted, content analysis was used to reveal the structural characteristics of the policy in the form of word frequency statistics, and discourse analysis was used to study the policy content.Results:The health information policies of 27 provinces during the " 14th Five-Year Plan" period could be summarized as 10 major themes, such as accelerating the construction of hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, promoting the high-quality development of public hospitals, and deepening the reform of medical security system. The health information policy in the eastern, central and western regions was relatively clear, and there were certain differences in the construction points according to their own characteristics.Conclusions:During the " 14th Five-Year Plan" period, the policies of each province around the field of health information are well defined, and the core structure and content are similar. The distribution of key points in the eastern region is relatively balanced; the construction of health information in the central region is more prioritized and prominent; the construction of health information in the western region is focused on complementing the weak links and weaknesses.

Objective To investigate the efficacy of decompressive craniectomy (DC) combined with ipsilateral external ventricular drainage (iEVD) for severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). Methods A retrospective case control study was performed on the clinical data of 54 sTBI patients admitted to the First People's Hospital of Taizhou from January 2015 to March 2018. There were 38 males and 18 females, aged 18-72 years [ (51. 8 ± 15. 4)years]. The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of patients ranged from 3 to 8 points. Among 54 patients, 27 received DC treatment, including 18 males and nine females aged (50. 1 ± 2. 9)years (DC group);27 patients received DC combined with iEVD, including 18 males and nine females aged (53. 4 ± 3. 1) years (DC-iEVD group). Intracranial pressure after surgery and complications ( hydrocephalus and subdural hygroma) 2 weeks after surgery, andModified Rankin Scale (mRS) 3 months after surgery were compared between the two groups. Results All patients were followed up for 2.5-4 months [(3.0 ±0.8)months]. No significant difference was found in intracranial pressure at postoperative 12 hours and 24 hours between the two groups (P>0. 05). However, the intracranial pressure of DC-iEVD group were significantly lower than those of DC group at 36, 48, 60 and 72 hours after operation (P<0. 05). The hydrocephalus incidence 2 weeks after surgery of DC-iEVD group was 15％ (4/27), while that of DC group was 7％ (2/27)(P >0. 05). The subdural effusion incidence 2 weeks after surgery of DC-iEVD group was 19％ (5/27), while that of DC group was 44％ (12/27) (P<0. 05). According to mRS, patients with good outcome in DC-iEVD group accounted for 63％(17/27) while the ratio was 44％ (12/27) in DC group. The prognosis of DC-iEVD group was slightly better than that of DC group, but the difference was not statistically significant(P>0. 05). Conclusion For sTBI, combined use of DC and iEVD can better control intracranial pressure and reduce the occurrence of subdural effusion.

BACKGROUND: Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) have demonstrated some dramatic efficacy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with activating EGFR mutation. However, progression-free survivals (PFS) among those patients who were treated with first line EGFR TKIs were inconsistent. The aim of this study is to explore the association of clinical prognostic factors with EGFR-TKI efficacy in advanced NSCLC patients. METHODS: The demographic and clinical characteristics of 203 patients with activating EGFR mutation treated with first generation TKI as a first-line therapy were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS: Of the 203 patients enrolled in this study, 139 patients had progression of disease and 63 patients died. The subjects had a median follow up duration of 21.1months and a median PFS of 14.3 months. Partial response (PR) was achieved in 127 (66.1%) patients and stable disease (SD) rate was achieved in 55 (28.6%) patients. In univariate analysis, patients with 2 or higher ECOG score (5.1 vs 16 months, P=0.033), SD as best overall response (9.5 vs 17.9 months, P=0.030), extrathoracic metastasis (11.7 vs 27.5 months, P=0.004), liver metastasis (4.1 vs 16.0 months, P=0.000), bone metastasis (13.3 vs 21.5months, P=0.027) and pulmonary embolism (5.5 vs 16.6 months, P=0.005) had shorter PFS than those without the listed factors. Multivariable Cox regression analysis showed best overall response (HR=1.825, 95%CI: 1.107-3.008, P=0.018) and liver metastasis (HR=1.694, 95%CI: 1.146-5.756, P=0.022) were independent predictive factors of shorter PFS. CONCLUSIONS Despite the high efficacy of EGFR-TKI, SD as best overall response and liver metastasis predicts poorer PFS in advanced NSCLC patients with EGFR gene mutations receiving first-line therapy treatment.
Adult ; Aged ; Antineoplastic Agents ; administration & dosage ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ; drug therapy ; enzymology ; genetics ; mortality ; ErbB Receptors ; genetics ; metabolism ; Female ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; drug therapy ; enzymology ; genetics ; Middle Aged ; Mutation ; Protein Kinase Inhibitors ; administration & dosage ; Retrospective Studies ; Treatment Outcome ; Young Adult

BACKGROUND: A number of patients with lung cancer have distant metastases at the time of diagnosis. The most common sites for metastases are liver, brain, etc. However pancreatic metastasis is relatively rare, with an insidious onset and poor prognosis. There are no sufficient recognition and attention of lung cancer with pancreatic metastasis. The aim of this study was to summarize the pathological characteristics, clinical manifestations, therapies and prognosis of pancreatic metastases of lung cancer, thus further exploring better managements for the best prolonged survival or quality of life. METHODS: 42 patients of lung carcinoma with confirmed pancreatic metastases hospitalized at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital from January 1998 to December 2018 were identified. We reviewed all medical documentations for complete information including diagnosis, treatment, prognosis features. RESULTS: 24 (57%) patients were asymptomatic or presented with non-specific symptoms. 18 (43%) patients had symptoms related to pancreatic metastases, such as acute pancreatitis, obstructive jaundice or pain of lumber back. The median overall survival (OS) was 8.8 months. Multivariate analysis suggested patients with symptoms had a poor prognosis compared with patients without pancreatic symptoms [(hazard ratio, HR)=2.645, 95%CI: 1.013-6.910, P=0.047]. Patients received chemotherapy had better prognosis versus those who did not [HR=0.158, 95%CI: 0.049-0.512, P=0.002]. CONCLUSIONS Pancreatic metastasis of lung cancer is rare and the prognosis is poor. Chemotherapy can prolong survival significantly. Local radiotherapy of the pancreas may alleviate local symptoms, improve quality of life, facilitate further systemic chemotherapy for patients to prolong survival. Patients with symptoms related to pancreatic metastases can benefit from the comprehensive treatment of chemotherapy combined with local pancreatic radiotherapy.
Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; secondary ; therapy ; Prognosis ; Quality of Life ; Retrospective Studies ; Survival Analysis

BACKGROUND: Endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) has emerged as an innovative technique for diagnosis and staging of lung cancer. But whether the procedure can provide enough tissue for the detection of gene mutations is still to be defined. Here we evaluated the efficacy of lung cancer diagnosis and gene analysis using samples obtain via EBUS-TBNA. METHODS: Patients with suspected lung cancer and mediastinal lesions were referred for EBUS-TBNA. Diagnosis and sub-classifications were made by pathologists. Samples with non-squamous non small cell lung cancer sub type were tested for the EGFR and/or ALK mutations. RESULTS: A total of 377 patients were included in this study. The median needle passes were 2.07. Lung cancer was diagnosed in 213 patients. The diagnosis accuracy for malignancy was 92%. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, anaplasticlymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion genes and double genes analysis were successfully preformed in 84 (90%), 105 (95%) and 79 (90%) patients. The number of needle passes and the diameters of lymph node were not associated with the efficacy of gene testing in univariate analysis. However, samples of adenocarcinoma sub type showed a tendency associated with higher genotyping efficacy. CONCLUSIONS Tissue samples obtained through EBUS-TBNA are sufficient for pathological diagnosis and genetic analysis of lung cancer. The pathology type of sample affected genotyping efficacy.
Adult ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung ; diagnosis ; genetics ; pathology ; Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration ; Feasibility Studies ; Female ; Genotyping Techniques ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; diagnosis ; genetics ; pathology ; Male