1.Care and treatment of the open cardiac traumas
Medical Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army 2001;0(11):-
Objective To explore the clinical features and urgent treatment strategies of open stabbing and penetrating wound of the heart. Methods In recent five years, 22 cases of cardiac trauma patients were sent to our emergency department, among them 19 sustained penetrating wounds produced by sharp instruments, 3 with perforating wounds, produced by firearm in 2 and sharp instrument in one. Emergent thoracotomy was performed in all the patients. The injury involved right auricle in 4, left auricle in 1, right ventricle in 11, left ventricle in 3, and perforating wounds of both right and left ventricles in 3 patients. Results Among them 19 survived, and their cardiac and pulmonary recovered 2 weeks after the operation. Three patients with injury of the great vessel died, one of them died 8 hour after the operation. Conclusion When the patients who presented open wounds on the anterior or posterior chests, showing a low or undetectable blood pressure, which could not raised even with fluid resuscitation with two venous lines or in some of them displaying signs of Beck's triad, open cardiac injury should be seriously suspected, and emergent thoracotomy should be taken in order to rescue the patients.
2.Expression of human papillomavirus DNA in keratoacanthoma tissue
Xuechao CHEN ; Xianmei LU ; Guizhi ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Dermatology 2010;43(9):614-616
Objective To detect the infection rate of human papillomavirus (HPV) types in keratoacanthoma (KA) tissue, and to study the distribution of HPV DNA-positive cells. Methods In situ hybridization was performed to detect HPV subtypes 6/11, 16/18, and 31/33 in paraffin-embeded tissue samples from 46 patients with KA and 34 nomal human controls. Results Mucosal HPV DNA was positive in 31 (67.39%)of the 46 KA samples, and mixed infection rate of HPV amounted to 83.87% (26/31) in these positive samples.The DNA of tested mucosal HPV types existed mainly in episomal status. Positive reactions were observed within or at the edge of nuclei. HPV infected cells showed a stripe-, slice-like or focal distribution mainly in superficial middle lamina of spinous layer at the bottom or lateral margin of crater-shaped epidermal depression. No mucosal HPV DNA was noted in normal control samples. Conclusions Compared with normal controls, patients with KA are infected with mucosal HPV at a higher frequency, and mucosal HPV DNA mainly exists in episomal status in KA tissue, hinting that HPV infection play a certain role in the pathogenesis of KA.
3.Four cases report of Jeavons syndrome in childhood
Zhefeng XU ; Zhanli LIU ; Xianmei HUANG ; Chunming JIANG ; Liqiong CHEN
Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 2014;(6):583-586
Objective To explore the clinical manifestations, electroencephalographic characteristics and therapeutic effect of drugs in children with Jeavons syndrome. Methods The clinical and electroencephalographic characteristics and thera-peutic effect of drugs were analyzed in 4 children with Jeavons syndrome. Results Among the four children there were 3 female and 1 male. The age at the onset of the disease was from 1 to 6 years. The typical clinical manifestations of this disease were brief, fast and repeated eyelid myoclonia (EM) with or without absence seizure. The typical electroencephalography (EEG) in two patients showed 3-6 Hz generalized spike and waves and polyspikes burst, and the eye closure and intermittent photic stimu-lation helped to induce discharges and clinical events. The typictal EEG in the other two patients showed 3.0-3.5 Hz generalizedδslow wave rhythm burst. The drugs of choice for treatment was sodium valproate monotherapy in two cases, levetiracetam in one case, sodium valproate combined with levetiracetam in one case. During the follow-up, seizures were controlled in one case, decreased in frequency in two cases and were still frequent in one case. Conclusions Jeavons syndrome is one of the idiopathic and generalized epileptic syndromes and characterized by EM with or without absence seizure. Video EEG monitoring plays an important role in the diagnosis of this disease. Sodium valproate and levetiracetam were effective for this disease.
4.Detection of T cell receptor gamma gene rearrangements in mycosis fumgoides
Yiping MA ; Xianmei LU ; Guizhi ZHOU ; Xuechao CHEN
Chinese Journal of Dermatology 2009;42(12):828-830
Objective To assess the diagnostic significance of T cell receptor gamma gene rearrangemerits in mycosis fungoides (MF), so as to develop a sensitive diagnosis tool. Methods A total of 50 specimens were collected, including 33 skin lesion specimens and 2 lymph specimens from 30 patients with MF,15 skin lesion specimens from 15 patients with inflammatory dermatoses. PCR was performed with specific primers targeting TCR V gamma 8, 9, 10, 11 to detect T cell receptor gamma gene rearrangement. Results Monoclonai rearrangements of TCR gene was observed in 88% (29/33) of specimens from patients with MF and 33% (5/15) of samples from patients with inflammatory dermatoses. Conclusions The detection of TCR gene rearrangements, as an ancillary test, is useful in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of MF.
5.Constructing a scale on KAP of nurses ′ on stroke-dysphagia and test of its reliability and validity
Xiaolan MAO ; Guoqing WANG ; Rong CHEN ; Xianmei MENG ; Liping YU
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2021;37(15):1140-1145
Objective:To develop a rating scale on the knowledge, attitude and practice of stroke-dysphagia for nurses, and to test the reliability and validity.Methods:Based on theoretical framework of the Knowledge, Attitude, Practice (KAP), the scale items were determined through literature review, expert consultation, pre-investigation, and qualitative interviews. 633 nurses in the department of stroke that from 18 hospitals in Hubei Province were selected for the survey, to further screen the items and test reliability and validity of the scale.Results:The positive coefficient of the two-round expert consultation were both 100%; the expert authority coefficient was 0.930; the level of coordination of experts ′ opinions was good. Exploratory factor analysis extracted 4 factors, the accumulative variance contribution rate was 44.278%, Content validity index S-CVI was 0.984, I-CVI was 0.857-1.000; the Cronbach α coefficient of scale was 0.855, test-retest reliability was 0.909. Eventually, the scale was consisted of 3 dimensions, 32 items. Conclusion:The scale has good reliability and validity, and can be used as a survey tool to test the current knowledge, attitude, practice of clinical nurses about patient with stroke-dysphagia.
6.Clinical Analysis for Serum Level of Salusins and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome in Patients With Hypertension
Cheng CHEN ; Xianmei WANG ; Lixia YANG ; Xianbao CAO ; Jingyu SUN ; Qiuhua WAN ; Ding QIN
Chinese Circulation Journal 2016;31(12):1179-1183
Objective: To explore the changes and signiifcance of serum level of salusins in patients with essential hypertension (EH), obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and OSAHS complicated hypertension.
Methods: Our research included 4 groups: EH+OSAHS group,n=50, EH group,n=60, OSAHS group,n=35 and Control group,n=31 healthy subjects. Blood pressure, AHI index, body weight, height and routine biochemical examination were conducted and recorded in all subjects, serum levels of salusin-α and salusin-β were detected by ELISA, the relationship between each variable and OSAHS complicated hypertension was studied by multivariate Logistic regression analysis.
Results:①Serum levels of salusin-α were reduced accordingly as in Control group (7.438±1.626) pg/ml, in OSAHS group (6.186±1.200) pg/ml, in EH group (5.938±1.287) pg/ml and in EH+OSAHS group (5.299±1.398) pg/ml; for difference between OSAHS group and EH group,P>0.05 and for differences between other groups, allP<0.01.②Serumlevels of salusin-βwere decreased accordingly as in Control group (10.575±1.791) pg/ml, in OSAHS group (10.279±0.530) pg/ml, in EHgroup (9.698±0.344) pg/ml and in EH+OSAHS group (9.070±0.586) pg/ml; for differences between OSAHS group and Control group, EH group, bothP>0.05 and fordifferences between other groups, allP<0.05.③Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that serum level of salusin-α was independently and negatively related to OSAHS complicated hypertension (OR=-0.736,P<0.05); serum level of salusin-β was independently and negatively related to OSAHS complicated hypertension (r=-0.731,P<0.05).
Conclusion: Low serum levels of salusin-α and salusin-β were related to OSAHS complicated hypertension.
7.Quality of Care for People with Disabilities and Related Factors in Hubei, China
Yaxuan FANG ; Guiling HUANG ; Zhinan YANG ; Xiqian GU ; Li DU ; Qin CHEN ; Yinping ZHANG ; Xianmei MENG ; Liaobin CHEN
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice 2017;23(8):900-904
Objective To investigate the current situation of quality of care for people with disabilities and the related factors. Methods In November, 2015, 399 disabled persons from five special service institutions in Hubei, China were conveniently sampled, and investigated with the Chinese version of Quality of Care and Support (QOCS) for people with disability scale and demographic questionnaire. Results The total score of QOCS was (38.11±6.24), and the proportion of total score in the dimensions of caring provision, caring environment and caring information were more than 70%. The score of QOCS was various with the age, domicile, employment, medical insurance, monthly household expenditure and expenditure for food of the people with disabilities, and the age (β=0.06, P<0.01) and medical insurance (β=-0.850, P<0.001) were the independent factors related with the score of QOCS. Conclusion People with disabilities self-reportedly satis-fied in the quality of care in Hubei, and it can be improved from the increase of medical insurance level.
8.Role of ERO1αand its DNA methylation in homocysteine-induced inhibition of hepatocyte proliferation
Li ZHAO ; Chengjian CAO ; Xianmei LIU ; Fanqi KONG ; Wenbin MA ; Longxia ZHOU ; Jiukai CHEN ; Minghao ZHANG ; Yun JIAO ; Xiaoling YANG ; Yideng JIANG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2014;(12):1743-1747
Aim To explore the role of ERO1 αand its DNA methylation in homocysteine (Hcy)-induced in-hibition of hepatocytes proliferation.Methods The hepatocytes stimulated with 0 μmol·L -1 Hcy were set as the normal group (NC group)and the hepatocytes stimulated with 1 00 μmol·L -1 Hcy as the experimen-tal group (Hcy group).Methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT)reduction assay was used to reflect the prolifer-ation of the hepatocytes;qRT-PCR and Western blot were used to detect the mRNA and protein levels of ERO1 α;the expression of green fluorescence protein was observed in hepatocytes after the recombinant plas-mid of ERO1 α was constructed,which was used to confirm if the recombinant plasmid into hepatocytes was successful,then the mRNA and protein levels of ERO1 αwere assayed and the proliferation of the hepa-tocytes was also detected;ntMSP was used to detect the change of ERO1 αDNA methylation.Results The mRNA and protein levels of ERO1 αwere decreased in Hcy group compared with NC group,and the prolifera-tion activity of hepatocytes in Hcy group was de-creased.Sequencing result showed that the recombi-nant plasmid of ERO1 αwas constructed successfully. QRT-PCR and Western blot revealed that ERO1 αwas overexpressed. The result of MTT suggested that ERO1 αoverexpression restored hepatocyte proliferation inhibited by Hcy.Hcy caused ERO1 αDNA hyperm-ethylation.Conclusions Hcy inhibits hepatocyte pro-liferation by downregulating the expression of ERO1 α, and methylation of ERO1 αpromoter may play a role in this process.
9.Role of homocysteine to promote the vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation by MiR-125 b methylation
Xianmei LIU ; Chengjian CAO ; Jue TIAN ; Li ZHAO ; Fanqi KONG ; Longxia ZHOU ; Jiukai CHEN ; Yanhua WANG ; Xiaoling YANG ; Yuexia JIA ; Yideng JIANG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2015;(7):1023-1027
Aim To investigate the role of miR-125 b and its DNA methylation in homocysteine ( Hcy )-in-duced vascular smooth muscle cells( VSMCs) prolifera-tion. Methods VSMCs were stimulated with 0,50, 100, 200, 500 μmol · L-1 Hcy respectively. Then qRT-PCR was used to detect the mRNA levels of miR-125b,and nested-touchdown methylation-specific PCR ( ntMS-PCR) was used to detect the methylation levels of miR-125b. VSMCs were transfected with miR-125b precursor or the inhibitor of miR-125b ,then 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2-5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide ( MTT ) assay was used to reflect the proliferation of VSMCs. The distribution of CpG islands of miR-125b promoter region was analyzed by bioinformatics meth-ods. VSMCs were stimulated with 100 μmol·L-1 Hcy and transfected with or without DNA methylation inhib-itors 5-nitrogen impurity cytidine ( AZC) , then the ex-pression of miR-125b was detected by qRT-PCR. Re-sults The mRNA levels of miR-125 b were decreased in 100,200,500 μmol·L-1 Hcy group compared with 0 μmol·L-1 Hcy group. The precursor of miR-125b could inhibit the proliferation activity and the inhibitor of miR-125 b could increase the proliferation activity of VSMCs cells. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that MiR-125 b promoter region had a CpG island whose length was 792 bp ( 1881-2672 ) . The miR-125 b pro-moter region methylation levels increased after Hcy in-tervention ( P <0. 01 ) . The expression level of miR-125 b increased after AZC intervention ( P <0. 05 ) . Conclusions ① Hcy promotes vascular smooth mus-cle cell proliferation maybe by down-regulating the ex-pression of miR-125b. ② Hcy down-regulates the ex-pression of miR-125 maybe by up-regulating the methy-lation levels of miR-125b promoter region.
10.The levels of NO decrease induced apoptosis in human placental trophoblast cells through oxidative stress
Yanhua WANG ; Huiping ZHANG ; Jue TIAN ; Longxia ZHOU ; Jiukai CHEN ; Wenbin MA ; Fanqi KONG ; Li ZHAO ; Xianmei LIU ; Xuebo HAN ; Xiaoling YANG ; Yideng JIANG
Chinese Pharmacological Bulletin 2014;(9):1287-1292
Aim To investigate the possible mecha-nisms of the levels of NO decrease induced apoptosis in human placental trophoblast cells. Methods Human placental trophoblast cells ( HTR-8 ) were cultured in 5 ml DMEM-F12 culture medium with 37℃ 5% CO2 . Then, the old culture medium was discarded and re-placed with 10,100,500,1 000 μmol·L-1 L-NAME, and the group without L-NAME was set as the control group, cultured for 48h. The effects of L-NAME on the survival of cells were detected by methylthiazolyldiphe-nyl tetrazolium bromide ( MTT); the content of NO in cells was tested by nitrate reductive enzymatic;trans-mission electron microscopy, flow cytometry analysis and Annexin-V FITC dyeing were used to test the effects of L-NAME on apoptosis in HTR-8 cells;restore Fe3+ colorimetric assay was applied for detection of to-tal antioxidant capacity ( T-AOC ) , xanthine oxidase for detection of superoxide dismutase ( SOD) activity, and thiobarbituric acid colorimetry for determination of content of MDA. Results Compared with the control group, the survival rate of HTR-8 cells and the levels of NO in 100,500,1 000 μmol·L-1 L-NAME group were significantly reduced(P<0.05,P<0.01). Flow analysis and Annexin-V FITC staining showed that L-NAME could induce cell apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. The number of cell apoptosis was negatively correlated with the content of NO ( r = -0.5210 ) in HTR-8 cells. Transmission electron microscopy results showed that compared with the control group, the ex-perimental group's cell nucleus shape was irregular, nuclear pyknosis in irregular shape, the chromatin ag-glutination or side the collection, mitochondrial swell-ing or enrichment, crest fracture or dissolved, even vanished, forming the vacuole, especially in 100 μmol ·L-1 L-NAME group, the apoptotic bodies obviously appeared. At the same time, T-AOC, SOD levels in HTR-8 cells decreased ( P <0.05 ) , and the MDA content increased ( P<0.05 ) . The number of cell ap-optosis was negatively correlated with the level of T-AOC ( r= -0.3212 ) , SOD ( r= -0.2779 ) in HTR-8 cells , while positively correlated with the content of MDA(r=0.2807). Conclusion Oxidative stress may play an important role in the levels of NO decrease in-duced apoptosis in human placental trophoblast cells.