1.The value of multi-modal guiding in transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate targeted biopsies in the biopsy naive patients
Ming YE ; Changyu CHEN ; Ying LIU ; Jing WANG ; Yang ZHOU ; Renbo WEI ; Fan WAN ; Hong ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Urology 2018;39(10):749-752
Objective To estimate the value of multi-modal guiding in transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate targeted biopsies (TB) in the biopsy naive patients.Methods From June 2016 to December 2017,178 patients with suspicious prostate cancer were retrospectively evaluated.The age of patients was 54-87 years(median 70 yesrs).Serum PSA level before biopsy was 1.5-95.0 ng/ml (median 13.2 ng/ml),in which 70 cases with PSA < 10 ng/ml,58 cases 10-20 ng/ml,and 50 cases > 20 ng/ml.All patients underwent transrectal ultrasound (TRUS),real-time tissue elastography (RTE) and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography(CEUS).All positive sites on imaging undergoing two-core TB and 10 core-systematic biopsy (SB).The detection rates and positive rates of biopsy for any cancer (PCa) and clinically significant prostate cancer (CsPCa) were compared between TB and SB.Pathological findings of each biopsy core was analyzed for Gleason grade and the single-core length of prostate cancer.Results The total detection rate for PCa was 48.8% (87/178).The diagnostic accuracy of PCa did not significantly differ between TB 35.5% (63/178) and SB 42.8% (76/178) groups.There was no significant difference between the proportion of CsPCa in TB group and SB group [80% (50/63) vs.66% (50/76),P =0.21].TB had an obvious higher single-core positive rate for prostate cancer 60.6% (449/740) and an obvious higher singlecore positive rate for high-risk prostate cancer [10.3% (76/740)] than SB [29.7% (530/1 780) and 5.5 % (98/1 780)],with statistically signficant difference (P < 0.001,P =0.002).TB also had a higher single-core length of prostate cancer than SB [6.80 (0.20-15.00) mm vs.5.50 (0.06-18.00) mm,P <0.05].Conclusions This study revealed a similar rate of prostate cancer detection between multi-modal guiding in transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate targeted biopsies (TB) and 10 core-systematic biopsy (SB).TB maybe tend to detect higher proportion of high-risk PCa.
2.Application of propensity score method to analyze the effect of Maixuekang capsule on the treatment outcome of coronary heart disease
Renbo CHEN ; Guozhong GAI ; Wenli ZHANG ; Yan ZHUANG ; Yanming XIE
Journal of Chinese Physician 2020;22(3):365-368
Objective:To analyze the effect of Maixuekang Capsule on the treatment outcome of coronary heart disease (CHD) by propensity score.Methods:Based on the electronic medical record database of 22 large-scale tertiary hospitals nationwide, this study matched the coronary heart disease patients using and not using Maixuekang capsule according to a certain standard (1∶1). After matching, there were 2 464 cases in the patients group (group A) and the patients group (group B). In the database, the recombination of " recovery" and " improvement" is defined as effective treatment, and " invalid" , " death" and " other" are combined as ineffective treatment population. The effectiveness of the two groups after the re combination is compared by propensity score.Results:The results of χ 2 test showed that the difference between the two groups was statistically significant ( P<0.05) without controlling the confounding factors, and the treatment effect of group A was better than that of group B. In order to further observe the difference between the two groups, three logistic regression analysis methods were used to analyze, which showed that the regression coefficient was >0, and there was statistical significance ( P<0.01). Conclusions:The therapeutic effect of Maixuekang capsule on coronary heart disease is higher than that of patients without the drug.