OBJECTIVETo observe the clinical effects of lung cancer, 75 patients with lung cancer were randomly divided into two groups, observation group underwent minimally invasive thoracic surgery 38 cases and the control group underwent conventional thoracotomy 37 cases.

RESULTSObservation group was significantly reduced compared with the control group in blood loss, postoperative pleural fluid drainage, postoperative hospital stay, the difference was statistically significant. While there was no statistically significant in the number of lymph node dissection, operative time and postoperative chest tube drainage time.

Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms ; surgery ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures ; Retrospective Studies ; Thoracoscopy ; Thoracotomy ; Treatment Outcome

Objective:To assess the efficacy of trastuzumab combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (Her-2)positive breast cancer patients,and to explore its influencing factors of prognosis of breast cancer.Methods:The clinical materials of 112 Her-2 positive breast cancer patients were collected and they were divided into combined treatment group (trastuzumab + neoadj uvant chemotherapy)and single chemotherapy group (without trastuzumab ). SPSS 1 9.0 software was employed to calculate and analyze their clinical characteristics.The survival rate and prognosis were analyzed by Kaplan-Meier method,Log-rank test, and Cox regression. Results:Among the 112 Her-2 positive breast cancer patients, 23 cases were treated with trastuzumab,89 cases were treated without trastuzumab.The disease-free survival (DFS)in combined treatment group and single chemotherapy group had significant difference (P=0.012).And there was no significant difference of overall survival (OS)between two groups (P=0.064).The HR negative group had 18 (32.7%)patients with 5-level of Miller and Payne (MP)classification which was higher than HR positive group (5/46,10.9%)(P=0.009).In univariate analysis,the tumor size,node status at diagnosis and node status after operation were the influencing factors of DFS in the Her-2 positive breast cancer patients;the tumor size,node status at diagnosis,MP classification and node status after operation were the influencing factors of OS in the Her-2 positive breast cancer patients.The result of multivariate analysis indicated that the tumor size, node status at diagnosis,and with or without radiotherapy were the independent influencing factors of DFS and OS in the Her-2 positive breast cancer patients. Conclusion:The breast lesions in the Her-2 positive breast cancer patients with negative HR are relieved after treated with trastuzumab combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The combination of trastuzumab and neoadj uvant chemotherapy can significantly improve the DFS and has a positive influence in the prognosis of Her-2 positive breast cancer patients.

Objective To observe the clinical effects of lung cancer, 75 patients with lung cancer were randomly divided into two groups, observation group underwent minimal y invasive thoracic surgery 38 cases and the control group underwent conventional thoracotomy 37 cases. Results Observation group was significantly reduced compared with the control group in blood loss, postoperative pleural fluid drainage, postoperative hospital stay, the difference was statistical y significant. While there was no statistical y significant in the number of lymph node dissection, operative time and postoperative chest tube drainage time.

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use* ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Hypertriglyceridemia/drug therapy* ; Proprotein Convertases ; Subtilisins

The application of artificial retina was introduced. The principal characteristics of artificial retina material were reviewed in particular. Moreover, the recent research development and application prospect were discussed.
Animals ; Bioartificial Organs ; trends ; Humans ; Prosthesis Design ; Retina ; Tissue Engineering ; methods

Subretinal prosthesis is one kind of retinal prosthesis, which means that a microimplant based on MEMS technology is inserted in the subretinal space to stimulate the optic nerve and elicit an electrical-evoked response on the cortical region. The subretinal implant is made up of extraocular part and intraocular part. As an important part, the latter consists of accessorial setting and stimulation chip that contains microphotodiode array (MPDA) and microelectrodes. The paper main body is made up of four parts. Firstly significance of the retinal prosthesis is given out; secondly fundamentals on both in retina physiology and retinal prosthesis theory are introduced simply. Then the key segment about the subretinal microimplant is presented in detail. In the third segment, first of all is its design concept, the second is fabrication of MPDA which consists of several parts. First is microscopic configuration, electric prototype schematic and chip image CMOS. The second is detailed fabrication flow with several special materials. Then is situation of its dimension. The fourth segment presents challenge and outlook.
Artificial Organs ; Electric Stimulation Therapy ; instrumentation ; Electrodes, Implanted ; Evoked Potentials, Visual ; physiology ; Humans ; Microelectrodes ; Prosthesis Implantation ; methods ; Retina ; physiology ; surgery ; Visual Perception ; physiology

The energy supply for the stimulation arrays is the key component in retinal implants. Usually, the thin film solar cell is used to supply energy, but it can not supply enough stimulation power. One of the general idea of incident energy supply is radio frequency (RF) circuit. Another method is to convert near infrared (NIR) radiation and enable retina cell stimulation. In this paper, firstly, we aim at listing these two energy supply methods, and introduce the characteristics of RF circuit and NIR conversion method. Especially, we present the design procedure in detail. The next part is a discussion on the advantage and disadvantage of adopting these two methods. At last, we explicate the new research and application of the energy supply for the use as retinal implants, and we envisage the future.
Animals ; Blindness ; rehabilitation ; Electric Power Supplies ; Electric Stimulation ; instrumentation ; methods ; Electrodes, Implanted ; Evoked Potentials, Visual ; physiology ; Humans ; Prosthesis Design ; Prosthesis Implantation ; methods ; Retina ; physiology

Objective: To analyze the correlation between circumcision and incidence and clearance of male genital HPV infection. Methods: From May to July 2014, 18-55 year old men who had sexual behavior history were recruited from the general population in Liuzhou, Guangxi to set up a cohort. Totally, 113 circumcised and 560 uncircumcised men were enrolled and interviewed using a questionnaire (including information on demographic characteristics and sexual behaviors), then they were followed-up with 6-month interval for 2 times. On each visit, specimens of male external genitalia were collected and genotyped for HPV DNA. The differences of incidence and clearance of genital HPV infections between circumcised and uncircumcised men were analyzed by Log-rank test. Cox regression was used to analyze the relationship between circumcision and incidence and clearance of HPV infection. Results: The median age (P₂₅, P₇₅) of circumcised and uncircumcised men were 28 (24, 35) and 32 (24, 31), respectively. The incidences of any HPV infections were 9.1 (95%CI: 2.4-15.7) and 8.4 (95% CI: 5.6-11.2) per 1 000 person-months (χ²=0.10, P=0.758), respectively. The clearance of circumcised men [136.3 (95%CI: 70.0-202.7) per 1 000 person-months] was higher than that in uncircumcised men [89.6 (95%CI: 65.9-113.3) per 1 000 person-months] (χ²=8.19, P=0.004). In multivariate COX regression analysis, compared with uncircumcised men, circumcised men had higher possibility to clear any HPV infections (HR: 2.41, 95%CI: 1.30-4.46). Compared with men having one sexual partner, people having more than 4 sexual partners had lower possibility to clear any HPV infections (HR: 0.49, 95%CI: 0.25-0.96). Compared with 18-25 years old men, men aged 26-35 years old had higher possibility to clear high-risk HPV infections (HR: 2.14, 95%CI: 1.08-4.23). Conclusion Circumcised and uncircumcised men had similar incidence of genital HPV infection, whereas, men conducted circumcision and having fewer sexual partners could increase the clearance of genital HPV infections.

Objective The evaluation of lymph node properties before lung cancer surgery has a great impact with the choice of surgical methods.Although there are various examination methods,many methods have invasive or accuracy problems.In order to improve the accuracy of diagnosis,we mainly discuss the value of wide-body spectral CT in the differential diagnosis of mediastinal metastatic lymph nodes,non-metastatic lymph nodes in lung cancer patients and reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes.Methods The clinical and imaging data of 64 patients with lung cancer and 28 patients with pulmonary inflammatory lesions were retrospectively analyzed.All patients underwent plain scan and enhanced dual-phase spectral CT scan.The size,density,three-phase IC,NIC,and λHU of lymph nodes in metastatic,non-metastatic and inflammatory reactive hyperplasia groups were measured on 70 keV single-energy images and iodine-based images,respectively.The single-factor variance and Kruskal-Wallis H rank sum test were used to analyze and compare the differences.Results The short diameter of metastatic lymph nodes was larger than that of non-metastatic lymph nodes and reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes(P<0.001).The plain scan density of reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes was higher than that of metastatic lymph nodes(P<0.001),but there was no significant difference between non-metastatic lymph nodes(P=0.325).The CT values of reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes in arterial phase and venous phase were higher than those of metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes(P<0.05).Except for NIC in arterial phase,IC,NIC and λHU in plain scan,IC and λHU in arterial phase,IC,NIC and λHU in venous phase of reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes and metastatic lymph nodes were statistically significant(all P<0.05).There was no significant difference in IC,NIC and λHU between reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes and non-metastatic lymph nodes in plain scan,arterial phase and venous phase(all P>0.05).Conclusion The quantitative and spectral curve slope of iodine in mediastinal metastatic lymph nodes of lung cancer were basically lower than those in reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes.The quantitative parameters of spectral CT had certain diagnostic efficacy in differentiating metastatic lymph nodes and reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes,while the spectral parameters of non-metastatic lymph nodes and reactive hyperplastic lymph nodes were not statistically significant.

Objective To develop deep learning-based auxiliary diagnostic models for diverse pulmonary diffuse cystic diseases,and subsequently evaluate their classification performance to identify the optimal model for clinical diagnosis.Methods A total of 288 patients diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF),pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis(PLAM),and pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis(PLCH)were prospectively enrolled from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University between January 2010 and October 2022,comprising 76 cases of IPF,179 cases of PLAM,and 33 cases of PLCH.A total of 877 CT cases were collected,comprising 232 cases of IPF,557 cases of PLAM,and 88 cases of pulmonary PLCH.Based on the cutoff date of December 31,2019,the CT scans were divided into two datasets:dataset A consisted of 500 CT scans including 185 IPF cases,265 PLAM cases,and 50 PLCH cases;while dataset B comprised 377 CT scans with a distribution of 47 IPFcases,292 PLAMcases,and 38 PLCH cases.The Dataset A was randomly partitioned into training set,validation set,and test set in a ratio of 7∶1∶2.Subsequently,six distinct deep learning neural networks were employed for training after preprocessing and data augmentation.Receiver operating characteristic curves were generated to assess the model performance using metrics such as area under the curve(AUC),accuracy,sensitivity,specificity,and F1 score in order to identify the optimal model.Furthermore,a test set B comprising 30 randomly selected cases from dataset B for each disease type was utilized to evaluate the trained optimal model by employing the same aforementioned metrics.Results In test A,six well-established diagnostic models demonstrated superior classification performance for IPF and LAM,with an AUC greater than 0.9.For LCH,EfficientNet exhibited low classification efficiency with an AUC between 0.6 and 0.7,while Vgg11 showed an AUC between 0.8 and 0.9;the other four models displayed excellent classification efficiency with an AUC greater than 0.9.Except for Inception V3,the remaining five diagnostic models performed poorly in identifying and classifying LCH lesions.Considering multiple indicators,the InceptionV3 model showcased optimal comprehensive performance among the six models,achieving high evaluation parameters such as overall accuracy(94.90%),precision(93.49%),recall(90.84%),and specificity(96.91%).TestB was conducted using the trained InceptionV3 model resulting in an accuracy of 81%,precision of 82%,recall of 81%,and specificity of 90%.Conclusions Six recognition and classification models,developed using deep learning technology in conjunction with pulmonary CT images,demonstrate effective discrimination between LAM,LCH,and IPF.Notably,the model constructed utilizing the InceptionV3 neural network exhibits superior efficiency in accurately recognizing and classifying IPF and LAM.