Objective To explore the diagnosis and treatment of altitude sickness combined with urinary retention. Methods 30 cases of altitude sickness combined with urinary retention were treated from April 16th to 26th,2010.They were all male,The average age of them was 24 years (range,19 -38).All were the first time entering the high altitude area (3600 -5000 m) from low altitude area (600 - 1800 m ).The urinary frequency of 25 patients reduced from 8 to 10 times/d to 2 to 4 times/d,the urine output reduced from the 1500- 2400 ml/d to 600- 800 ml/d; the other 5 patients had no urine in 12 -18 h,even had no sense to urinate.26 patients also combined with altitude pulmonary edema and 4 combined with altitude cerebral edema.30 patients had double renal columns enlarged,21 cases had urinary protein ( + ～ ++ ). Results 30 patients were exported urine 300 -600 ml within 10 min,leaded to urine 1800 -2300ml in 12 h,returned to normal voiding after catheter removal in 18 -24 h. After comprehensive treatment such as oxygen,dehydration,diuretic,sedative,antispasmodic and anti-infection,22 cases who with chest tightness,shortness of breath,dyspnea,hemoptysis foam sputum,headache,vomiting and other symptoms of jet-like improved apparently after hospital admission within 1 hour.Their heart rate downed from 90 - 145beats/min to 68 -92 beats/min,respiration from 28 -45 times/min to 18 - 28 times/min,oxygen saturation from 48％ - 84％ to 92％ - 100％ ; 8 cases who with shortness of breath,palpitation and headache improved not obviously.After the antihypertensive treatment,their blood pressure was still high (systolic blood pressure 150 - 180 mm Hg,diastolic blood pressure 90 -110 mm Hg),oxygen saturation between 78％ to 87％,so they were carried to rear area for further treatment.30 cases were all cured no death. Conclusions The high altitude urinary retention is reversible disease,which is often associated with high altitude pulmonary edema,altitude cerebral edema,acute subclinical renal dysfunction and gastrointestinal disorders.They are easily being induced by elements such as gastroenteritis,lung infection,tonsillitis,periodontitis,tiredness and so on; low atmospheric pressure,hypoxia and high altitude is the possible cause; the ratio of missed diagnosis is high; the treatment of oxygen and indwelling catheterization is better; The best method of prevention is to wear pressurized suits and adapt the environment in a ladder-step gradual way.

OBJECTIVE: Strengthen realization of pulmonary infection and perform follow-up plays a key role in preventing severe pulmonary infection following kidney transplantation. The aim of this study is to analyze the diagnosis and pathogens distribution in patients with pulmonary infection following kidney transplantation. METHODS: Totally 14 patients with severe pulmonary infection following kidney transplantation, who received treatment at The Department of Urology Center, Lanzhou General Hospital of Lanzhou Military Area Command of Chinese PLA, from May 2004 to September 2008, were analyzed. Including 10 males and 4 females, aged from 20 to 65 (37.3±11.4) years. Six patients suffered pulmonary infection within 3 months, 7 patients occurred pulmonary infection occurred during 3-6 months, and pulmonary infection occurred in 1 patient at 6 months after kidney transplantation. The infection rate was 93% during 6 months after kidney transplantation. The diagnosis of pulmonary infection was according to the clinical manifestation of respiratory system, and combined with specificity display of sternum, CT or detection of pathogen. Oxygen inhale and mechanical ventilation were employed for admitted patients. And electrolytes, acid-base equilibrium was daily detected. Twelve patients accepted "three-medicine" treatment and 2 cases accepted "four-medicine" treatment. The therapeutic drugs could be regulated individually. The dose of immunosuppressive agent was adjusted due to ciclosporin, CD4~+/CD8~+, and C-reactive protein levels. RESULTS: The pathogens of pulmonary infection were bacteria (5 patients), fungi (4 patients), and mixed infection (3 patients). No pathogen was found in 2 patients. Four patients died of acute respiratory distress syndrome, 1 patient died for quitting treatment. The remained 9 patients were cured. The mortality was 36%, and the recovery rate was 64%, CONCLUSION: The cure rate of patients with severe pulmonary infection following kidney transplantation can be increased by early combining antibiotics treatment, regulating immunosuppressive agents, early identifying pathogens, taking respiratory support therapy, as weii as adding nutritional supplement.

OBJECTIVE: Anatomic variation of renal artery existed in donor kidney, and whether the variation would affect clinical effects is unconfirmed. This paper is aimed to study the outcomes of in vitro reconstruction of malformed renal blood vessels on outcome of kidney transplantation. METHODS: Patients treated with kidney transplantation at Department of Urology, Lanzhou General Hospital of Chinese PLA were selected; including 27 cases underwent kidney transplantation with malformed blood vessels. Seventeen of them had accessory renal artery, 10 of them with two or three renal arteries. Additional 22 patients transplanted with normal kidney during the same period were selected as the control group. Bench surgery with microsurgical techniques was employed for the repair of the vessels, which included 11 cases of end to end anastomosis of arteries, 6 cases of end to side anastomosis of arteries, 6 cases of side to side conjoined anastomosis of arteries, and 4 cases of renal artery lengthening with an interposition of donor or recipient iliac artery. The hemorrhage, hypertension, renal arterial stenosis, delayed graft function, incidence rate of acute rejection, and the serum creatinine level were followed up.RESULTS: Totally 49 cases were received a mean 2-year follow-up, and no death occurred in both groups. Two cases in the experimental group, and 3 cases in the control group were suffered hypertension or hypertension aggravated, the difference had no significant (P =0.673). No arterial stenosis occurred during the follow up. In the experimental and control groups, the incidence of delayed graft function was 20% and 14%, the incidence of acute rejection was 13% and 5%, and mean serum creatinine at 2 year was (119±11) and (127±8) μmol/L, respectively, the difference was not significant between two groups (P=0.179, 0.385, 0.658).CONCLUSION: Donor kidneys with malformed vascular can be used for transplantation after bench reconstruction, which do not influence the outcome of kidney transplantation.

Objective:To explore the changes and clinical significance of inflammatory indices of urogenic sepsis with different severity.Methods:A retrospective case-control study was used to analyze the clinical data of 71 patients with urogenic sepsis admitted to 940th Hospital of PLA Joint Logistics Support Force from January 2010 to April 2018, including 34 males and 37 females, aged 39-96 years [(63.1±18.3)years]. The patients were divided into three groups according to the clinical diagnostic criteria for septic shock and sepsis according to the 2014 edition of the Chinese Urology Surgical Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment: 21 cases in sepsis group [sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score of 3.0 (2.0, 3.0)points], 21 cases in severe sepsis group [SOFA score of 9.0 (6.0, 11.0)points], and 29 cases in septic shock group [SOFA score of 15.0 (14.0, 16.0)points]. Spearman correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation of inflammatory indicators with SOFA, including white blood cell count, percentage of neutrophils, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, procalcitonin, fibrinogen, D-dimer, and platelet. Multiple linear regression analysis and stepwise regression weighted analysis were performed to analyze the relation between inflammatory indicators and sepsis severity. Levels of each inflammatory indicator was detected and compared among the groups.Results:① Spearman correlation analysis: percentage of neutrophils, D-dimer, interleukin-6, procalcitonin and SOFA scores were significantly positively correlated, with the r s value of 0.738, 0.712, 0.31, 0.795, respectively ( P<0.01); platelet and SOFA scores were significantly negatively correlated, with the r s value of -0.661 ( P<0.01). ② Multiple linear regression analysis: percentage of neutrophils, platelet, D-dimer, procalcitonin and SOFA score were significantly correlated ( P<0.01); Stepwise regression weighted analysis suggested that the model linear relationship and fit was good. ③ Inflammatory index comparison: percentage of neutrophils in sepsis group, severe sepsis group and septic shock group was 82.30 (76.25, 88.45), 90.50 (86.55, 93.85), 95.10 (92.05, 97.95), respectively; level of platelet was 183.01 (144.50, 246.50)×10 9/L, 149.11 (81.04, 207.00)×10 9/L, 81.26 (50.01, 93.50)×10 9/L, respectively; level of D-dimer was 0.98 (0.71, 1.74)mg/L, 3.45 (1.79, 5.56)mg/L, 7.19 (4.26, 11.63)mg/L, respectively; level of procalcitonin was 0.55 (0.21, 1.09)ng/ml, 5.45 (3.74, 11.80)ng/ml, 17.68 (13.97, 26.75)ng/ml, respectively. There were significant differences in above indicators among the groups ( P<0.05). Conclusions:The serum levels of procalcitonin, percentage of neutrophils, D-dimer and platelet are positively correlated with the severity of urogenic sepsis. While combined detection of those indicators can better predict the severity of the sepsis.

Objective:To investigate the safety and the efficacy of percutaneous and surgical approach in femoro-femoral veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) cannulation.Methods:All consecutive patients implanted with femoro-femoral VA-ECMO between January 2018 and December 2020 in Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University. Propensity score matching was used to compare outcomes of percutaneous and surgical groups while controlling for confounders.Results:Among the 276 patients who received femoro-femoral VA-ECMO (62 surgical and 214 percutaneous), propensity-score matching selected 52 pairs of patients with similar characteristics with mean age of(59.6±13.0)years old, in which 26 patients were female. There were a lower ECMO cannulation-associated complication (28.8% vs. 48.1%, P=0.044) and a lower hospital mortality (42.3% vs. 67.3%, P=0.010) in the percutaneous group. The circuit blood flow after ECMO initiation was similar in both groups[(3.3±0.8)L·min -1·kg -1 in percutaneous group vs. (3.2±0.7)L·min -1·kg -1 in surgical group, P=0.738]. The serum lactate was declined in both group after ECMO initiation[(5.4±5.8)mmol/L vs. (9.2±6.9)mmol/L, P<0.001 in percutaneous group; (6.3±6.2)mmol/L vs. (10.5±7.0)mmol/L, P=0.003 in surgical group]. Conclusion:Percutaneous approach is a safe and efficient technique in emoro-femoral VA-ECMO cannulation. Compared with surgical cannulation, percutaneous approach is associated with lower ECMO cannulation-associated complication and lower hospital mortality.

OBJECTIVETo study the expression of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) in peripheral blood of patients with rectal carcinoma and to preliminarily explore its clinical significance.

METHODSBlood samples from 76 rectal carcinoma patients who underwent surgery in Department of General Surgery, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou University between June and October 2013 were collected before operation, postoperative day 10 and 2 years after operation respectively. Flow cytometry was used to detect MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of 76 rectal carcinoma patients and 40 healthy people. The change of MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of rectal carcinoma patients after treatment was investigated. Furthermore, the relationship of peripheral blood MDSC percentage with clinicopathological characteristics was examined.

RESULTSPreoperative MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of 76 rectal carcinoma patients [(3.52±0.68)%] was higher than that of 40 healthy people[(0.92±0.21)%], with significant difference (t=3.026, P=0.005). Preoperative MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of rectal carcinoma patients was significantly related with histological classification (t=2.453, P=0.018), depth of tumor invasion (t=2.051, P=0.035), lymph node metastasis (t=2.328, P=0.022), TNM stage (t=2.529, P=0.016). Univariate analysis showed that TNM stage, histological classification, lymph node metastasis, preoperative MDSC percentage in peripheral blood were the prognostic factors in rectal carcinoma. Multivariate analysis showed that TNM stage (HR=2.535, 95%CI: 0.851 to 4.160, P=0.038) and preoperative MDSC percentage in peripheral blood (HR=3.651, 95%CI: 0.877 to 14.263, P=0.031) were independent prognostic factors of rectal carcinoma. MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of rectal carcinoma patients decreased significantly on the postoperative 10-day [(2.41±0.46)%] compared to that before operation [(3.52±0.68)%], whose difference was statistically significant (t=1.778, P=0.043). During follow-up, tumor recurrence or metastasis was found in 23 patients. MDSC percentage in peripheral blood of rectal carcinoma patients with recurrence or metastasis [(4.37±1.23)%] was higher than that of rectal carcinoma patients without recurrence or metastasis [(2.36±0.35)%] two years after operation, with statistically significant difference (t=1.982, P=0.039).

CONCLUSIONSMDSC percentage in peripheral blood of rectal carcinoma patients is significantly elevated compared to that of healthy people. Increased MDSC percentage indicates poor prognosis and tumor progression in rectal carcinoma patients. Measurement of peripheral blood MDSC percentage may have a potential clinical value in prognosis prediction of rectal carcinoma.

The diagnosis of bone metastasis of prostate cancer (PC) is of great significance to the treatment and prognosis of patients with PC.Bone scan is the most commonly used in the early diagnosis of bone metastasis, but its specificity is low and there is a high false positive.In recent years, with the in-depth study of the application of CT, MRI, emission computed tomography (ECT), positron emission computed tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and deep learning algorithm-convolutional neural networks (CNN) in the diagnosis of bone metastasis, the combined application of various auxiliary parameters in the diagnosis of bone metastasis has significantly been improved. The therapeutic effect of PC patients with bone metastasis can also be evaluated, which is expected to achieve the treatment of bone metastasis as well as diagnosis. By systematically expounding the research progress of the above-mentioned techniques in the diagnosis of bone metastasis, it can provide clinicians with new methods for the diagnosis of bone metastasis and improve the diagnostic efficiency for bone metastasis.
Bone Marrow Diseases ; Bone Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging* ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography ; Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging*