Objective To explore the risk factors influencing the prognosis by analyzing clinical data of patients with acute paraquat intoxication, and to assess the prognostic values of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) score, sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, and Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) stage.Methods The clinical data of patients with acute paraquat intoxication admitted into the First People's Hospital of Xianyang City during October 2005 to May 2015 were retrospectively analyzed.The patients were divided into death group and survival group according to 28-day outcome after poisoning.The gender, age, body weight index, toxin dose, time elapsed from poisoning to gastric lavage, time elapsed from poisoning to hemoperfusion (HP), times of HP treatment, white blood cell count (WBC), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate transaminase (AST), total bilirubin (TBil), serum creatinine (SCr), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatine kinase (CK) were determined at admission.Arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2), arterial lactate (Lac), and APACHE Ⅱ score, SOFA score and AKIN stage were recorded and compared between two groups.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted for APACHE Ⅱ score, SOFA score and AKIN stage to analyze the prognostic value for patients with acute paraquat intoxication.Results There were 118 cases in total,with 64 survivors and 54 deaths in 28 days, and the fatality rate was 45.76％.Compared with survival group, the toxic dose (mL: 66.29 ± 27.40 vs.29.16 ± 19.40), time elapsed from poisoning to gastric lavage (minutes: 60.37 ± 26.68 vs.41.17± 14.82), WBC count (× 109/L: 16.86±2.77 vs.10.25 ± 2.60), ALT (U/L: 53.94± 10.85 vs.36.40±9.21),SCr (μmol/L: 159.69±42.85 vs.81.73±34.40) at admission as well as Lac (mmol/L: 3.06± 1.33 vs.1.71 ±0.88),APACHE Ⅱ score (6.46±2.38 vs.3.31 ± 1.51), SOFA score (3.31 ± 1.06 vs.2.21±0.76) 48 hours after admission were significantly higher in the death group (all P ＜ 0.01).PaO2 and PaCO2 48 hours after admission were significantly lower in death group than those in the survival group [PaO2 (mmHg, 1 mmHg =0.133 kPa): 64.07± 13.04 vs.75.40 ± 13.27, PaCO2 (mmHg): 26.20 ± 8.89 vs.31.25 ± 6.29, both P ＜ 0.01].There were 18, 15, 11 and 10 patients in AKIN 0, 1, 2, 3 stage 48 hours after admission respectively in death group, and 38, 15, 7, 4 in survival group.The difference between two groups was statistically significant (P ＜ 0.01).There were no statistically significant differences in gender, age, body mass index, time elapsed from poisoning to HP, levels of HP, and AST, TBil, BUN and CK at admission between the two groups.At 48 hours after admission, the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of APACHE Ⅱ score predicting the prognosis of patients with acute paraquat poisoning was 0.875 [95％ confidence interval (95％CI) =0.814-0.935, P =0.000].When the cut-off point of APACHE Ⅱ score was 4, the sensitivity and specificity were 79.6％ and 79.7％, and the best Youden index was 0.593.The AUC of SOFA score was 0.776 (95％CI=0.692-0.859, P =0.000).When the cut-off point of FOFA score was 3, the sensitivity was 72.2％, the specificity 67.2％, and the best Youden index 0.394.The AKIN stage of ROC curve had an area of 0.656 (95％CI =0.556-0.755, P =0.004).When the cut-off point of AKIN stage was 1, the sensitivity was 66.7％, the specificity was 59.4％, and the best Youden index was 0.261.Conclusions Amount of the poison, time elapsed from poisoning to gastric lavage, and WBC, ALT, SCr at admission as well as PaO2, PaCO2 and Lac 48 hours after admission are the risk factors for prediction of the prognosis of acute paraquat intoxication.APACHE Ⅱ score, SOFA score and AKIN stage can be used to assess the prognosis of acute paraquat poisoning, and APACHE Ⅱ score is better than SOFA score and AKIN stage.

Objective To explore the effects and mechanism of peroxisome proliferators activated receptor-gamma(PPAR-γ)and its ligand rosiglitazone on ischemia-reperfusion injury of the donor bile ducts.Method Forty-two SD rats were randomly divided into three groups with fourteen rats in each:the sham operation group (SO),ischemia-reperfusion(I/R)group and I/R+rosiglitazone group(I/R+Ros).The animal model of is-chemia-reperfusion occurred in the orthotopically transplanted liver was used.Tne signal pathway of iuflanunatory response of bile duets of the transplanted hver and the variations of associated cytokines were detected by the signal transduction pathway-finder gene array and cytokine antibody chips.The pathological changes and the biochemical markers of the donor liver were assessed by histopathological score and the estimation of the functional changes of some other organs.Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 10.0 software package.Statistical analysis was car-ried out by using one-way anova and Bonferroni test.Results Compared with the SO group and I/R+Ros group.the expression of NF-кB gene of I/R group to more than two times,and the levels of IL-1α,IL-1β and TNF-α pro-tein expressions in I/R group went up over double too.Compared with I/R group,the histopathological score and the biochemical markers of I/R+Ros group were significantly lower (P＜0.05,P＜0.01,respectively).Con-clusions PPAR-γ and its ligand rosiglitazone have protective effects on ischemia-reperfusion injury to donor bile ducts.The mechanism may be attributed to decrease in the release of inflammatory mediators(IL-1α,IL-1β,TNF-α and so on)resulted from the down-expression of decreased due to NF-кB.

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of Qingyi decoction (a preparation of Chinese herbal medicine) combined with DAR (combined use of dexamethasone,anisodamine and rhubarb) for the treatment of acute pancreatitis.Methods A total of 387 eligible patients met the criteria of acute pancreatitis were enrolled from January 2005 to April 2012 for prospective study.All patients,mild acute pancreatitis (MAP) or severe acute pancreatitis (SAP),were divided (random niumber) into four groups,namely conventional therapy (T),DAR therapy (DAR),Qingyi decoction therapy (Q) and Qingyi decoction combined with DAR therapy (Q + DAR).Outcome,fasting time,serum amylase,abdominal pain relief time,pancreatic or peri-pancreatic complications and average hospital-stay were analvzed with SPSS 13.0 statistic software.P ＜ 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results None of MAP patients died.Of SAP patients,there was no difference in mortality among different groups (P ＞ 0.05).length of fasting time,tine elapsed for abdominal pain relief,time required for normalized serum amylase level and length of hospital stay in MAP patients were significantly shorter than those in SAP patients regardless of different therapies (P ＜ 0.05).Either patients of SAP or MAP treated with Q + DAR or DAR suffered shorter length of time than those treated with T or Q in respect of fasting,abdominal paiu relief,serum amylase level normalization and hospital stay (P ＜ 0.05).For SAP or MAP patients,there was no difference in abdominal pain relief time between receiving DAR and Q + DAR treatment (P ＞ 0.05),but the fasting time in Q + DAR was shorter than that in DAR (P ＜ 0.05).Patients with SAP were more likely to suffer pancreatic or per-pancreatic complications than those with MAP,but there was no difference for SAP or MAP with different treatments.Conclusions DAR or Q + DAR was an alternative to conventional treatment for MAP or SAP,and they were both superior to conventional treatment.And Q + DAR was more advantageous than DAR when fasting time,hospital-stay time and cost were considered.

Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) is a novel therapeutic agent for life-threatening massive gastrointestinal bleeding. We report a case of massive gastrointestinal bleeding in a 78-year-old female patient with respiratory and renal failure. After failure of management of the bleeding with routine pharmacotherapy, we gave the patient rFVIIa injection at the dose of 20 µg/kg and the bleeding was rapidly controlled. Adverse side effects of the drug were not observed in this patient.
Aged ; Factor VIIa ; therapeutic use ; Female ; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Recombinant Proteins ; therapeutic use ; Renal Insufficiency ; Respiratory Insufficiency