1.Clinical effects and safety of catheter-directed thrombolysis for acute lower extremity deep vein thrombosis in patients aged 70 years and over
Qianyi CHEN ; Hua WANG ; Xiaoman HU ; Zhewei FEI ; Jingmin OU
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics 2016;35(2):133-136
Objective To analyze the efficacy and safety of catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) for acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in patients aged 70 years and over.Methods Clinical data of 109 cases who had acute lower extremity DVT and had been treated with CDT from March 2011 to September 2014 were retrospectively analyzed.Results Inferior vena cava filters (IVCF) were implanted in 109 patients.A thrombolytic catheter was inserted from the contralateral femoral vein (21 cases),ipsilateral popliteal vein (44 cases),posterior tibial vein (28 cases) or small saphenous vein (16 cases).The duration of thrombolysis was (5.47±2.13) d.The dosage of urokinase was (3.80 ± 0.56) million units.Forty-two cases underwent balloon dilatation alone,and 67 cases combined balloon dilatation with stent implantation.Gingival bleeding occurred in 7 patients and gross hematuria occurred in 4 patients during thrombolysis,which disappeared after medication adjustment.No symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE) or other serious complications were found in any patients.There were significant differences in the venous patency score and lower limb circumferences at 10 cm above and below the knee one week after treatment (t=3.874,P=0.031).Ninety-seven cases were followed up for a mean period of (20.76.5) months,and the vein patencyrate was (77.9± 10.5) % and (73.1±9.4) % at 6 and 18 months after treatment,respectively.Recurrence of deep vein thrombosis was found in 6 cases,of which 2 cases had recurrent stent thrombosis,and treatment with CDT again was successful.No severe deep venous thrombosis syndrome (PTS) was found during the follow-up.Conclusions CDT is a minimally invasive procedure and can rapidly resolve limb venous drainage disorders.CDT is safe,has few complications and usually generates satisfactory outcomes.For very-old elderly patients who have no anticoagulation and thrombolytic contraindications,CDT is a useful option for the treatment of acute lower limb DVT.
2. Comparison of FibroTouch and FibroScan for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients
Weijia DUAN ; Xiaoming WANG ; Yu WANG ; Xinyan ZHAO ; Xiaoning WU ; Qianyi WANG ; Jidong JIA ; Xiaojuan OU
Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology 2018;32(4):399-402
Objective:
To explore the diagnostic values of FibroTouch and FibroScan for liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B(CHB).
Methods:
This study enrolled patients with CHB who was accepted liver biopsy at Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University between March 2014 to December 2017. FibroTouch and FibroScan were performed among these patients at same time. Liver stiffness measurement(LSM), optimal cut-off value, receiver operating characteristic(ROC) were compared.
Results:
In our 103 patients, there were no significantly different between FibroTouch and FibroScan in LSM. The threshold of the optimal cut-off value for FibroTouch and FibroScan were 5.45 versus 5.55 kPa (≥S1), 7.10 versus 6.65 kPa (≥S2), 11.05 versus 9.20 kPa (≥S3), 15.50 versus 15.45 kPa (S4), respectively. The area under the ROC curve for the prediction of the stage1, stage2, stage2, stage 4 of liver fibrosis in these patients were 0.858 versus 0.765 (
3.Application of formative evaluation in the teaching of geriatric pharmacology
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2023;22(2):188-191
Objective:To explore the influence of formative evaluation on the teaching effect of geriatric pharmacology by introducing formative evaluation model into the teaching evaluation system of geriatric pharmacology.Methods:The 78 undergraduates of Batch 2013 clinical medicine from Chongqing Medical University were selected as the control group, and the summative evaluation method was used for evaluation; another 142 clinical medical students of Batch 2014 were set as the experimental group, and the formative evaluation method was adopted for evaluation. The statistical analysis was conducted based on the examination scores at the end of the semester. SPSS 23.0 was used for t-test. Results:The test papers of 142 students in the experimental group and 78 students in the control group were analyzed with full samples. The reliability coefficients of the test papers were all greater than 0.6, close to 0.85, indicating that the test results were reliable. The overall difficulty of the test paper is appropriate, and the discrimination is good. The final score (59.66±13.90) of the students in the experimental class was significantly higher than that of the students in the control class (51.58±14.33), with a statistically significant difference ( t=4.08, P<0.001). Conclusion:The application of formative evaluation in the teaching of geriatric pharmacology can effectively improve students' initiative and improve the quality of teaching.