1.Comparison of clinical characteristics in children patients with pneumonia under different body mass indexes
Xiaofang QI ; Lumin GUO ; Kaihu YAO
Chongqing Medicine 2015;(11):1475-1477
Objective To study the differences of clinical characteristics in the children patients with pneumonia under differ‐ent body mass indexes(BMI) to provide the basis for its clinical research .Methods 160 children patients with pneumonia in the Shandong Armed Police Corps Hospital were selected and divided into the normal BMI group (15 .00
2.Sequence Analysis and Identification of A Novel HLA-A* 2 4∶3 2 7 Allele Been Designated by the HLA Nomenclature Committee of WHO
Tianju WANG ; Liping CHEN ; Xiaofang WANG ; Manni WANG ; Jun QI
Journal of Modern Laboratory Medicine 2016;31(5):18-22
Objective To do analysis of sequence and identify a novel HLA-A allele in Chinese hematopoietic stem cell do-nors.Methods A rare HLA-A allele was initially detected by Luminex PCR-SSO typing,then the sample was sequenced by sequence-based typing (SBT)and the group-specific sequencing primer (GSSP)to confirm the mutation allele and locus.Re-sults The sequence of the sample results showed that the allele compared with the highest homologous allele HLA-A*24∶02∶01∶01 was the difference in the exon 3 at position 544 G>A,resulting in an amino acid sequence of HLA-A*24∶02∶01∶01 at position 158 change Ala to Thr.Conclusion This allele is a new HLA-A allele and has been designated as HLA-A*24∶327 by the HLA Nomenclature Committee of World Health Organization (WHO).
3.Induced pluripotent stem cells and cardiovascular disease
Qi ZHAN ; Jing ZHANG ; Xiaoqing WANG ; Xiaofang CHEN ; Yan HUANG
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research 2016;20(36):5440-5449
BACKGROUND:Induced pluripotent stem cel s have great prospects in tissue repair, due to the characteristic of self-renewal, multi-directional differentiation, no immunological rejection and ethics controversy.
OBJECTIVE:To summarize the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s towards cardiomyocytes and endothelial cel s, and their applications in the cardiovascular diseases.
METHODS:The first author performed a data retrieval of PubMed and CNKI databases from 2000 to 2015 to search articles addressing the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s towards cardiomyocytes and endothelial cel s, and reviewed the literatures systematical y. Final y, 78 articles were chosen for further analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Induced pluripotent stem cel s can differentiate into cardiovascular cel s through a variety of methods. Factors such as cyclosporin A and ascorbic acid C may improve myocardial differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s, while vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor may improve the endothelial differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cel s. Cardiovascular cel s derived from induced pluripotent stem cel s can be applied to build disease models in vitro, transplantation in vivo and drug screening.
4.Analysis of the situation in application of patents associated with plaque researches
Yan XU ; Panpan HU ; Fengqing QI ; Meng ZHANG ; Xiaofang XUE
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2015;24(12):49-53
In order to show the development situation and trend in plaque research, Thomson Innovation Platform-covered application of patents associated with plaque researches was quantitatively analyzed using the Thomson Data Analyzer and Thomson Innovation or other tools, which revealed the overall development situation, the main accepted countries, the main application institutions and the technological direction layout of patents associated with plaque researches.
5.The analysis of correlative factors on mental health of post-linguistic hearing loss adults.
Beier QI ; Xiaofang LI ; Wenbin GAO ; Bo LIU
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2015;29(18):1598-1602
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the mental health level of the post-linguistic deafen adult, to analyze factors affecting the mental health level.
METHOD:
Fifty-two adult patients with severe to extremely severe post-linguistic hearing loss were randomly selected to participate the study. A self-reporting questionnaire drew up by researchers was used to collect sociological data of the participants. The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), self-rating depression scale (SDS) and personal report of communication apprehension (PRCA-24) were used to measure the mental health degree of 52 post-linguistic hearing loss adults. To analyze related factors affecting the mental health in post-linguistic deafen adult.
RESULT:
(1) Majority of post-linguistic deafen adult have mental symptoms, including 24 subjects (46.15%) with anxiety feeling, 18 subjects (34.61%) with depression feeling and 45 subjects (86.54%) with communication apprehension. (2) Gander, with/without tinnitus, duration of hearing loss, education background and family support had significant correlation with the mental health level of subjects. Higher incident rate of mental symptoms were found in male (OR = 2.246), with tinnitus (OR = 0.536), short duration (OR = 1.397, 1.530), high education background (OR = 0.323) and poor family support (OR = 1.724).
CONCLUSION
The mental health of the post-linguistic deafen adult was worse than that of the normal people, pathological feature and sociological factors were significantly correlated to the psychological evaluation. It is very important to pay attention on mental health and to give effective counseling of hearing loss people.
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6.The effect of improving the physical and mental health on different rehabilitation programs for post-linguistic cochlear implantees.
Beier QI ; Ruijuan DONG ; Xiaofang LI ; Wenbin GAO ; Bo LIU
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2015;29(4):304-309
OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the physical and mental health status of post-linguistic cochlear implantees, and then to explore the effectiveness on of different rehabilitation programs.
METHOD:
Mandarin hearing in noise test (MHINT), personal report of communication apprehension (PRCA-24) and Nijmegen cochlear implant questionnaire (NCIQ) were used to measure the hearing ability, mental health degree and the health related life quality in 36 post-linguistic cochlear implant users, respectively. The improvement of subjects' physical and mental health levels was compared with among different rehabilitation programs, including family training program, auditory habilitation program and psychological intervention program.
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(1) Family training program only can improve the subject's hearing ability (P < 0.05), but failed to ease the communication apprehension; ((2) Auditory habilitation program can both significantly improve the subjects' hearing ability (P < 0.01) and ease the fear of talking face to face (P < 0.01); (3) Psychological intervention program can significantly increase the auditory abilities (P < 0.01), reduce the communication apprehension (P < 0.01) and improve the quality of life.
CONCLUSION
Post-linguistic cochlear implantees had obvious mental symptoms. It was very important to design an effective rehabilitation program to improvement the living quality of hearing loss people.
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7.Analysis of cooperation networks based on SCI papers from military hospitals
Xiaofang XUE ; Panpan HU ; Rui CHEN ; Wei HE ; Meng ZHANG ; Fengqing QI ; Songjun WANG
Military Medical Sciences 2014;(10):828-832
Objective To analyze the institutional cooperation networks of 137 military hospitals in terms of published papers, trends of cooperation and co-authorship in order to guide the cooperation between military hospitals.Methods The institutional cooperation, co-authorship, author-keyword co-occurrence and author-subject co-occurrence in the 137 military hospitals were analyzed with the Thomson data analyzer( TDA) software.Results and Conclusion The institutional coop-eration between military hospitals could be divided into 5 types and were based on the principle of proximity of locations and similiarity of research.The cooperaiton circle with Chinese PLA General Hospital as the center was expanded over time. The institutional cooperation between military and civilian hospitals was also based on the principle of proximity of locations and similiarity of research.Cooperation between productive authors mainly occurred in the same research group but co-au-thorship outside the research group was scarce.The potential competition or cooperation between research fields and authors can be analyzed by comparing co-authorship and author-keyword co-occurrence.
8.Prenatal education increases breastfeeding rate of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care unit
Xiaofang HUANG ; Qi FENG ; Xifang RU ; Ying WANG ; Xing LI ; Xin ZHANG ; Yan ZHENG
Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine 2017;20(7):493-500
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of maternal prenatal education on promoting breastfeeding rate for preterm infants in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Methods Gravidas who were admitted to Peking University First Hospital for any risk of preterm delivery from November 2013 to December 2014 and preterm infants admitted to the NICU (length of stay ≥ 5 d) of the same hospital during the same period were involved.All the gravidas received prenatal education and completed questionnaires.Two hundred and ninety-five preterm infants who met the inclusion criteria were divided into two groups including education group (n=125) and non-education group (n=170) according to whether their mothers received prenatal education or not.Conditions of the preterm infants during hospitalization and after discharge and breastfeeding rates were comparatively analyzed between the two groups.T test,Chi-test and Wilcoxon rank-sum test were used for statistical analysis.Results (1) There were 380 gravidas received questionnaires.Among them,346 (91.1%)completed the questionnaires and were recruited in this study.Only 31.8% (110/346) of these gravidas were active in learning more about breastfeeding and 46.2% (160/346) of them lacked confidence in breastfeeding after the appearance of preterm delivery signs.There were significant improvements in their attitudes towards considering breastfeeding seriously and discussing with their family,confidence in breastfeeding,the importance of colostrum and how to breastfeed a preterm infant in hospital after maternal prenatal education (all P<0.001).Prenatal education was thought to be helpful in 77.5% (268/346) of the gravidas.(2) The two groups of preterm infants showed good homogeneities in gestational age,gender,birth weight and other basal conditions as well as in incidences of in-hospital complications and conditions after discharge (all P>0.05).Proportions of breast milk intake (breast milk intake over total dairy intake) in preterm infants were higher in education group than those in non-education group within 5 d after birth [0.0 (0.0-16.5)% vs 0.0 (0.0-2.5)%,Z=-3.422],>5-≤ 7 d [33.7 (0.0-82.8)% vs 0.0 (0.0-50.3)%,Z=-3.070],>7-≤ 14 d [75.2(23.5-96.4)% vs 47.6(0.0-92.2)%,Z=-2.345] and during hospitalization [58.4 (21.0-78.8)% vs 31.9 (0.0-71.7)%,Z=-3.902] (all P<0.05).Breastfeeding rates were higher in education group than those in non-education group at the age of 5 d [47.2%(59/125) vs 27.1% (46/170),x2=12.747],7 d [70.4% (88/125) vs 51.2% (87/170),x2=11.031],three months [83.3%(65/78) vs 56.1% (60/107),x2=15.297] and six months [64.5% (49/76) vs 49.1% (53/108),x2=4.282] (all P<0.05).Exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first,third and sixth months after birth were higher in education group [45.7%(53/116),42.3% (33/78) and 36.9% (28/76)] than those in non-education group [21.3% (32/150),28.0% (30/107)and 22.2% (24/108)] (22=17.847,4.091 and 4.703,all P<0.05),respectively.Conclusions Most gravidas with risk factors of preterm delivery have no confidence on breastfeeding.Prenatal maternal education is an effective and feasible intervention to improve breastfeeding rate for preterm infants in NICU from early hospitalization till six months after birth.
9.The significance of combined detection of PTX3 and NT -ProBNP in evaluating of the prognosis of the patients with AMI combined T2DM
Yanxia ZHU ; Xinxin GONG ; Xiaofang WANG ; Qi ZANG ; Wei ZHANG ; Yuanyuan WANG ; Qian LIU
Chinese Journal of Primary Medicine and Pharmacy 2015;(13):1974-1976,1977
Objective To investigate the changes of PTX3,NT -ProBNP level and the correlation between them and the prognosis of the patients with AMI combined T2DM.Methods 143 patients with primary AMI were enrolled,of which 63 patients with type 2 diabetes (observation group)and 80 patients with no diabetes (control group).Plasma PTX3 values were measured with ELISA method and NT -ProBNP was detected by the electrochemi luminescence method.All patients were observed for the occurrence of MACE during hospitalization and 12 months after discharge.The correlation between PTX3,NT -ProBNP concentration and occurrence of MACE in observation group were analyzed.Results The PTX3,NT -ProBNP concentration[(8.95 ±5.06)ng/mL,(1 609 ±1 049)pg/mL]in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group[(7.03 ±3.70)ng/mL,(1 198 ± 809)pg/mL](P =0.010,P =0.009);The number(n =26)of patients with occurrence of MACE in the observation group was significantly higher than 15 cases in the control group(P =0.003).In the observation group,the PTX3, NT -ProBNP concentration[(10.98 ±5.45)ng/mL,(2 007 ±1 097)ng/mL]in patients with MACE were signifi-cantly higher than those in patients without MACE[(7.53 ±4.28)ng/mL,(1330 ±930)ng/mL](P =0.007,P =0.010),and in MACE group,the PTX3,NT -ProBNP concentration[(13.88 ±6.84)ng/mL,(2 596 ±1 333)ng/mL] in patients with death weresignificantly higher than those in patients without death[(9.18 ±3.52)ng/mL,(1 639 ± 751)ng/mL](P =0.029,P =0.023).Conclusion More strong chronic inflammatory reaction and serious myocar-dial injury might occur in the patients with AMI combined and T2DM,and those patients would have poorer prognosis. The combined detection of PTX3,NT -ProBNP has an important significance in evaluating of the degree of myocardial damage and the prognosis of the patients with AMI combined T2DM.
10.Outcomes of fast track surgery program used in minimally invasive esophagectomy
Qi WANG ; Ming WU ; Gang SHEN ; Xiaofang XU ; Gang CHEN ; Saibo PAN
Chinese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2013;(6):349-353
Objective To observe the outcomes of fast track surgery program applied in thoracoscopic/laparoscopic esophagectomy.Methods From March 2010 to December 2012,99 esophagus cancer patients were randomly allocated to receive thoracoscopic/laparoscopic esophagectomy[minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) group,50 cases] and open esophagectomy [open esophagectomy (OE) group,49 cases].Same fast track surgery program was applied in both groups.Perioperative data of all patients were collected and analysized.Results The baseline of both groups was similar.Compared with OE group,MIE group got more abdominal lymph nodes resection,13(6-40) vs.4(0-20),P <0.05.In both groups,the level of the total albumin,hemoglobin and total cholesterol in the 8th postoperative day was higher than that of the 1 st postoperative day,P <0.05.Statistical difference was observed in the 48 h patient controlled analgesia usage,24 h and 48h visual analogue scales score of motion and less motion,postoperative creatine kinase level,the white cell count and C-reaction protein level in the 8th postoperative day,of which the MIE group got better results,P < 0.05.Patients in MIE group took less time to begin oral nutrition (6 days vs.9 days P < 0.05),besides,the parenteral nutrition duration [(7.9 ± 2.4) days vs.(8.6 ± 2.9)days,P < 0.05] and postoperative hospital stay [(12.5 ± 3.1) days vs.(17.1 ± 6.3) days,P < 0.05] were also shorter,P <0.05.Conclusion Fast track surgery program is safe and feasible for patients receiving esophagectomy.MIE combined with fast track surgery program can promote early rehabilitation by easing pain,reducing inflammatory response,improving nutrition state,lowering postoperative morbidity,shortening hospital stays,and as a result,have more obviously advantages.