1.Bleeding management of special sites for hemophilia patients
Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2013;20(2):123-126
As one of congenital bleeding diseases,the bleeding is the most important manifestation in hemophilia patients.The most common bleeding sites are joints and muscles,the most life-threatening bleedings are intracranial hemorrhage and gastrointestinal hemorrhage,and some special sites (like eye,throat) are also very important.The correct identification and appropriate management for the bleeding episode are the most important issues for the reduction of modality and morbidity and the improvement of their life quality improvement.In this review,we will discuss the management of several special sites in hemophilia patients.
2.New progresses in diagnosis and treatment of childhood immune thrombocytopenia——open the new era based on immunologic pathogenesis
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2016;31(15):1121-1125
With advances in medical sciences,immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is gradually regarded as one of diseases characterized bv underlying loss of immune tolerance.Accordingly,treatment methods and strategy are shifting from traditional clinical experience to targeted therapy on a step-by-step basis.As for chronic and refractory ITP,combination therapy,novel immunological targeting drugs are turning out to be more effective treatment options.With further understanding of ITP pathogenesis,the elucidation of infections in the development of childhood ITP,the realization that ITP is in fact an immunological syndrome,and the distinction of other diseases with ITP-like clinical manifestations,are of great clinical implications.
3.Treatment strategy of childhood immune thrombocytopenia
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2017;32(15):1124-1128
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) of childhood is the most common hemorrhagic disease which is characterized by isolated thrombocytopenia.Depending on individual patient characteristics,appropriate initial management for newly diagnosed ITP may be either watchful waiting or pharmacologic intervention.The main options for initial pharmacologic intervention include a single dose of intravenous immune globulin(IVIG) and/or a short course of glucocorticoids.For ITP children with severe or life-threatening bleeding,it is recommended that both platelet transfusions and the combination of pharmacotherapy.Approximately 20 percent of children who present with ITP will progress to chronic ITP(CITP).Children who develop CITP should have an additional evaluation to exclude other disorders.The pharmacologic options for CITP include Rituximab,and thrombopoietin (TPO)/TPO receptor agonist (Romiplostim or Eltrombopag).Combination therapy and novel immunological targeting drugs become more effective treatment options.Splenectomy is only suit for a small number of children with chronic refractory ITP patients who present significant and persistent hemorrhagic symptoms requiring repeated pharmacologic interventions.
4.Practice and Experience of Pharmaceutical Care for Hemophilia Children by Clinical Pharmacists
Xiaoling CHENG ; Xiaoling WANG ; Runhui WU
China Pharmacy 2016;27(23):3288-3290
OBJECTIVE:To explore appropriate pharmaceutical care methods for hemophilia children,and to improve rational drug use. METHODS:Drug consultation hemophilia records collected from our hospital during Nov. 2014 to Jul. 2015 were summa-rized in respects of personal structure,form and content;key cases were analyzed specially. RESULTS:During Nov. 2014-Jul. 2015,clinical pharmacists received 130 times/cases of medication consultation that related to hemophilia in our hospital;patient’s family members occupied the main part (70.0%);most of drug consultation form was information platform for consultation (58.5%);consultation content mainly covered drug combination and auxiliary medication (77.7%). Clinical pharmacists have re-duced the risk of bleeding,improved the quality of life,reduced the economic burden of families and strengthened the awareness of medical staff and patient’s family member on safe drug use through finding out medication error timely,paying attention to the component of compound drug,guiding medication direction and optimizing therapy plan. CONCLUSIONS:Clinical pharmacists ac-tively provide pharmaceutical care and promote rational drug use during hemophilia treatment from medication consultation,ratio-nal drug use,etc.
5.Value of high frequency ultrasound in assessment the changes of haemophiliac arthropathy in children
Ningning ZHANG ; Runhui WU ; Yun PENG
Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography 2014;23(8):701-704
Objective To discuss the value of high frequency ultrasound in assessment the changes of knee,ankle and elbow joints with haemophiliac arthropathy in children.Methods Eighty joints of 42 haemophiliac patients were enrolled in this study.Sixty two joints of 29 patients were examined by X-ray at the same time.The correlation of ultrasonography and X-ray on bone aspects were compared.Results Among 80 joints of 42 haemophilic patients,soft tissue swelling was showed in 12 joints,synovial hypertrophy was in 48 joints,the thickness range of synovial membrane was from 2.01 to 11.12 mm [(4.71± 2.26)mm],increased blood flow was in 40 joints,effusion in 53 joints,haemosiderin was in 33 joints,bone erosion was in 36 joints,subchondral cyst formation was in 20 joints,cartilage damage or disappear was in 31 joints.Ultrasonograthy showed bone erosion in 29 joints,subchondral cyst formation was in 16 joints,cartilage damage was in 24 joints.X-ray showed bone erosion in 23 joints,subchondral cyst was in 16 joints,narrowing joint space was in 20 joints.There was high correlation between the osteochondral domain of the ultrasonography and X ray:Kappa value were 0.803,0.832,0.790 respectively(P <0.05).Conclusions Ultrasonography is sensitive to detect the signs of enrolled joints in hemophiliac patients.It is an important method on diagnosis for hemophiliac arthrophv.
6.Investigation on long-term complications of glucocorticoid in treatment of Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Jie ZHENG ; Runhui WU ; Yan SU ; Liqiang ZHANG ; Jie MA
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2015;30(15):1184-1187
Objective To collect and summarize long-term complications of glucocorticoid (GC) in treatment of Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA).Methods A total of 17 DBA patients,treated with GC more than 1 year from December 2009 to November 2012 in Being Children's Hospital,Capital Medical University,were retrospectively investigated.The data of general information,drug treatment,treatment response,height and body mass in different therapy periods,and therapy related adverse reaction were collected.The data entry and the statistical analysis were performed using SPSS 16.0 software.Results Seventeen cases which fulfilled the research criteria were enrolled.The 58.8 percent of cases (10/17) began GC therapy from the age younger than 6 months.The 76.4 percent of the cases (14/17) started prednisone therapy with the dosage ≥2 mg/(kg · d),and the median time of maintenance therapy with this dosage was 2 months (1-5 months).The median time of prednisone dosage greater than 0.5 mg/(kg · d) was 6 months (3-48 months).Patients were divided into 2 groups at the beginning of therapy according to whether their age was younger or older than 6 months.The median height of younger age group was-1.0 SD (-3.5-1.0 SD) of corresponded age-sex-standard height at the beginning of prednisone therapy,and was dropped to-3.5 SD (-3.5--2.0SD)afterhalfyeartreatment.For older age group,it was0.0 SD(-1.5-2.0 SD)and-0.5 SD (-1.5-0.5 SD) respectively.During the therapy,there were 1 fracture,2 measles pneumonia,3 pneumonia,3 hirsuitisms,5 thrushes,and 12 central obesity cases.Conclusions GC related adverse reaction might appear when applying prednisone for the treatment of DBA in long term.It was suggested that GC therapy should start after 6 months old if possible,and the duration of 0.5 mg/(kg · d) GC treatment should be reduced as short as possible.
7.Evaluation of the efficacy of immunosuppressive therapy with rabbit-antithymocyte globulin combined with Cyclosporine in children with severe aplastic anemia
Yan SU ; Runhui WU ; Jie MA ; Xuan ZHOU ; Rui ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2015;30(3):189-193
Objective To evaluate the efficacy and adverse reaction of the first line therapy with rabbit-antithymocyte globulin (ATG) combined with Cyclosporine (CsA) in children with acquired severe aplastic anemia.Methods A retrospective analysis was performed.The clinical data included 44 children with acquired severe aplastic anemia treated with ATG combined with CsA in Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University between June 2006 and December 2013.The SPSS 19.0 statistical package was used for data analysis.Results Sixteen cases were severe aplastic anemia,and 28 cases were very severe aplastic anemia.The median age of treatment with ATG was 8 years old and 10 months.The median follow-up period was 24 months.The hematologic response rate was 66% (29/44 cases) in 6 months after ATG treatment,and the overall response rate was 77% (34/44 cases) at the endpoint of follow-up.The median time of partial remission (PR) was 3 months,of complete remission (CR) was 12 months.Eighty-five percent (29/34 cases)effective cases achieved PR during 6 months,while 56% (15/27 cases)cases achieved CR in 12 months.There was no significant difference between the response rate with ATG treatment and gender,severity of disease,age,interval from clinical onset to ATG treatment,and ratio of CD4 +/CD8 +.The response rate in children without serum sickness was superior to that with serum disease(P =0.006).Thirty-four cases (77%) manifested immediate side-effects with ATG infusion.The side-effects included fever,chill,rash,gastrointestinal distress and irritable cough.The overall 2-year survival rate was 87.3% (39/44 cases) and the 2-year transplantation-free survival rate was 82.5% (37/44 cases) (x2 =0.34,P =0.56).Conclusions The response rate with rabbit-ATG combined with CsA in children with acquired severe aplastic anemia was 77%.The adverse reactions were minor.The immunosuppressive therapy should begin as soon as possible in children without chance for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
8.Correlation between mixed APTT test and FⅧ inhibitor in children with hemophilia A
Gang LI ; Zhenping CHEN ; Yingzi ZHEN ; Lei CUI ; Xinyi WU ; Runhui WU
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2015;(7):480-483
Objective To predict the critical point of FⅧinhibitor development using the results of incubated APTT mixed test by ROC curve .Methods We retrospectively analyzed the results of APTT mixed test and FⅧinhibitor assay in 343 specimens of children with hemophilia A and performed the ROC curve analysis to define the optimum critical point of FⅧinhibitor .Results The area under the ROC curve (AUC) was 0.973 (95% CI 0.960-0.986,P<0.01).For incubated APTT mixed test, the optimum critical point of inhibitor surveillance (Youden value, 0.824) was 39.7s (sensitivity 87.2%, specificity 95.2%), 53.4s was the optimum cut-off point to distinguish low-titer from high-titer FⅧinhibitor (sensitivity94.6%, specificity 95.0%).Conclusion Our results showed that the APTT mixed test could be taken as a screening test to estimate the existence of inhibitor and distinguish high or low titer .
9.Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia:a clinical and gene analysis of 21 cases
Kai WANG ; Yan SU ; Li ZHANG ; Hongyun LIAN ; Rui ZHANG ; Runhui WU
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2016;(3):190-193
Objective To analyze the clinical characteristics of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia(JMML) and the PCNA levels of the hyperoxia -exposure group (6 h)decreased,and the difference in PCNA protein expres-sion levels was significant of gene diagnose for JMML.Methods Clinical data were retrospectively analyzed in 21 pa-tients suffering from JMML based on new 2009 World Health Organization diagnostic criteria from January 201 3 to June 201 4 in Beijing Children′s Hospital,Capital Medical University.Results There were 85.7% (1 8 /21 cases)patients within 4 -year -old children,and the median age was 23 months (2 -86 months).Fever and abdominal symptoms were the prominent clinical symptoms,52.4% (1 1 /21 cases)with fever,38.1 % (8 /21 cases)with abdominal dis-tention,diarrhea and other abdominal symptoms,80.5% (1 9 /21 cases)had splenomegaly (mild 1 9.1 %,middle 33.3%,severe 38.1 %),and some patients had other tissue infiltration,such as rash,yellow tumor and lymphnode enlargement.Peripheral blood cell count showed that the white blood cells increased because of anemia or thrombocyto-penia,ranging from 1 0.40 ×1 09 /L to 82.1 4 ×1 09 /L(median,26.1 0 ×1 09 /L),and the monocyte counts ranged from 1 .46 ×1 09 /L to 21 .60 ×1 09 /L(median,3.79 ×1 09 /L),characteristics of JMML gene abnormality was detected in 1 7 cases:including 1 1 single gene mutation,and 6 cases with double gene mutations.PTPN11 was the highest frequency of occurrence,accounting for 52.9% (9 /1 7 cases),and NF1 mutation was 35.3% (6 /1 7 cases).All the patients were followed up by phone call,the median follow -up time was 371 days (57 -562 days),6 patients were lost to follow -up,7 patients died,2 patients were alive after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation,1 patient converted to acute non lymphocytic leukemia,and 5 patients were still alive after receiving symptomatic treatment.Among dead cases,PTNT11 gene mutation and NF1 gene mutation were detected in 6 patients;among living children after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation,RAS and PTNT11 mutations were detected in 2 patients;among living children after symptomatic treat-ment,RAS mutation was detected in 2 patients and PTPN11 +CBL mutation in 1 case.Conclusions The symptom and laboratory examination of JMML have no specificistics,with poor prognosis,gene diagnose has guiding significance for JMML diagnose and for selecting therapy.
10.The incidence and risk factors for catheter -related thrombosis in children
Yunyun WEI ; Liqiang ZHANG ; Huyong ZHENG ; Xiaorong LIU ; Gang LIU ; Fang FANG ; Xiwei XU ; Runhui WU
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics 2015;(13):1019-1022
Objective To study the current status of catheter - related thrombosis(CRT)in Chinese children through a retrospective analysis of the inpatients in the Department of Medicine,Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University. Methods The clinical data of the inpatients with CRT from November 2010 to November 2013 were collected retrospectively,and the causes,clinical symptoms,diagnosis,treatment and prognosis were ana-lyzed. Results There were 42 cases of children with CRT in Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University. Among the cases,the male to female ratio was 1. 0:0. 5;the median age of onset was 88(2 - 186)months with ﹤ 1 year old counted for 16. 7%(7 / 42 cases)and 13 - 14 years old counted for 11. 9%(5 / 42 cases);the distri-bution differences between the male and the female age were not significant(P = 0. 826). The median time from cathe-terization to CRT onset was 9(1 - 81)days,0 - 10 days after catheterization was the peak of onset(52. 5% ,21 / 40 ca-ses)followed by 10 - 20 days(35. 0% ,14 / 40 cases). The protopathy was usually hematologic tumor,kidney disease or deep fungal infection. Slightly more cases developed CRT on the right side(57. 1% ,24 / 42 cases)than on the left side (38. 1% ,18 / 42 cases). All cases were diagnosed by using B - ultrasound,of whom 28. 6%(12 / 42 cases)were symp-tom - free. After being diagnosed,7. 1%(3 / 42 cases)were treated with conservative methods such as immobilization of the affected limbs and hot compress;7. 1%(3 / 42 cases)had catheter removed;anticoagulant and/ or thrombolytics after catheter removal used in 33. 3% patients(14 / 42 cases). After 1 week,22 cases were reviewed,of whom 54. 5%(12 / 22 cases)had thrombosis reduced(all with intervention),thrombosis growing in 22. 7% patients(5 / 22 cases), and thrombosis did not change in 22. 7% patients(5 / 22 cases). Three cases needed re - catheterization after catheter removal,and all of 3 cases had CRT recurrences(100% ). Conclusions CRT is more common among infants and senior children. CRT usually develops within 20 days after catheterization. Children with hematologic tumor,kidney disease or deep fungal infection are more likely to have CRT. Routine ultrasound test should be conducted to monitor CRT in catheterized children. Once CRT is diagnosed,patients need to be treated with anticoagulants and/ or thrombo-lytics. Catheter should also be removed if necessary. Recatheterization can result in CRT recurrence.