New guideline for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants,children,and adolescents was published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in 2012.This guideline made relevant recommendations and suggestions on intracranial pressure monitoring,threshold for treatment of intracranial hypertension,cerebral perfusion pressure thresholds,advanced neuromonitoring,neuroimaging and therapy for intracranial hypertension in pediatric patients with severe traumatic brain injury.This guideline was simply interpretated in order to improve the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury.

Intracranial hypertension is one of the most common pediatric acute and severe diseases.Intracranial pressure(ICP) monitoring can dynamically evaluate the changes of the patients with brain injury,calculate the cerebral perfusion pressure,guide the clinical treatment.ICP monitoring can not reflect the cerebral microvascular dysfunction and cell dysfunction,so it is necessary to carry out multimodality monitoring based on ICP monitoring.The information integration of ICP monitoring and multimodality monitoring is helpful to further understand the pathophysiological mechanism of brain injury,and it is also helpful for individualized treatment of patients.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection can cause pneumonia,bacteremia,infective endocarditis and other diseases,seriously threat to the health of children.Pediatricians should discover the focus of infection.And the focus of infection should be removed or debrided in time.Vancomycin is an important drug for the treatment of MRSA infection,the use of Vancomycin need to ensure that the blood concentration is effective.Now,the advances in treatment of MRSA infection in children was mainly summarized.

Inhaled nitrous oxide (iNO) can alleviate pulmonary hypertension and enhance ventilation-perfusion matching to improve oxygenation in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS).But duration of improvement was short.From the existing researches,iNO can't effectively improve outcome in PARDS.So iNO is not recommended for routine use in PARDS.However,iNO may be used in patients with documented pulmonary hypertension or severe right ventricular dysfunction.In addition,iNO can be a rescue intervention for severely PARDS to buy time and allow other therapies.

Because the X-ray scatters, the CT numbers in cone-beam CT cannot exactly correspond to the electron densities. This, therefore, results in registration error when the intensity-based registration algorithm is used to register planning fan-beam CT and cone-beam CT. In order to reduce the registration error, we have developed an accurate gradient-based registration algorithm. The gradient-based deformable registration problem is described as a minimization of energy functional. Through the calculus of variations and Gauss-Seidel finite difference method, we derived the iterative formula of the deformable registration. The algorithm was implemented by GPU through OpenCL framework, with which the registration time was greatly reduced. Our experimental results showed that the proposed gradient-based registration algorithm could register more accurately the clinical cone-beam CT and fan-beam CT images compared with the intensity-based algorithm. The GPU-accelerated algorithm meets the real-time requirement in the online adaptive radiotherapy.
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Objective To identify the significance of serum phospholipase A2 receptor antibody (PLA2R-Ab) in idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN) patients.Methods A total of 108 patients diagnosed as IMN by medical history,physical examination,laboratory examination and renal biopsy in Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology between Dec 1,2014 and Aug 31,2017 were enrolled,and all related data were recorded.According to the results of serum PLA2R-Ab test,patients were divided to positive group and negative group,and the data were compared with the independent sample t test and the chi-square test.Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was performed to compare remission rates between groups,and the Logrank method was used to evaluate the significance of differences.Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis were used to verify predicting factors for achieving remission.Results Overall,67.6％(73/108) patients had detectable serum PLA2R-Ab.Compared with patients in negative group,patients in positive group exhibited higher proportion of male patients (P=0.002),lower level of serum albumin (P ＜ 0.001),higher level of cholesterol (P ＜ 0.001),lower level of immunoglobulin G (P ＜0.001),higher level of proteinuria (P=0.003),a lower of chance of remission (P=0.049),longer time needed to achieve partial remission (P=0.001) and complete remission (P=0.002).The 1-and 2-year cumulative renal partial remission rates were 72.4％,86.1％,and the cumulative renal complete remission rates were 43.8％,54.0％,respectively.Patients in negative group had higher partial remission (x2=9.84,P=0.002) and complete remission (x2=15.50,P＜0.001) than those in positive group.Multivariate Cox regression model indicated that serum positive PLA2R-Ab was a significant independent risk factor.Conclusions IMN patients with serum PLA2R-Ab show more severe condition and lower remission rates than those without serum PLA2R-Ab.Serum positive PLA2R-Ab is an independent remission-related predictor for IMN patients.

Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics and risk factors of secondary infection in patients with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV).Methods One hundred and eighteen patients newly diagnosed with AAV at the institute of nephrology,Tongji hospital affiliated to Huazhong university of science and technology,from 2012 to 2017,were analyzed retrospectively.Induction therapy included single corticosteroids,combination of corticosteroids with cyclophosphamide and combination of corticosteroids with other immunosuppressive agents.End point was defined as moderate to severe infection which was diagnosed by the clinical and radiological manifestation as well as microbiological evidences.The infection-related survival curve was drawn to reflect the time when the infection occurred.The clinical baseline variables in patients with and without infection were compared.Multivariate Logistic regression model was used to determine the independent predictors of infection.Receiver-operating characteristic curve (ROC) was plotted for evaluating the predictive value of lymphocyte on moderate to severe infection.Results During followup of median 3 months (1-30 months),88 infection episodes were found in 63 (53.4％) patients,of which 54 times (61.4％) occurred within 6 months after treatment,46 times (52.3％) happened within 3 months after treatment.The most common organ of infection was lung (62.5％),and the most common pathogen was bacteria (51.1％).Multivariate Logistic regression model showed that lung involvement (OR=4.44,95％ CI 1.59-12.41),moderate reduction of lymphocyte in follow-up (OR=5.69,95％ CI 2.05-15.85) and severe lymphocyte reduction (OR=36.28,95％CI 3.45-381.17) were independent risk factors of secondary infection in AAV patients (all P ＜ 0.05).ROC curve showed that the area under the curve of lymphocyte as a predictor of severe infection was 0.767 (95％ CI 0.64-0.89,P ＜ 0.05).Based on lymphocyte less than 0.49× 109/L which was the cut-off value for predicting severe infection,the sensitivity and the specificity were 83.9％ and 71.9％,respectively.Conclusions Lung involvement and moderate-severe lymphopenia during follow-up are independent risk factors of secondary infection in AAV patients.Hence,physician should pay more attention to those patients,and adjust treatment in time to avoid the occurrence of infection.

Objective: To investigate the application of regional citrate anticoagulation with calcium hemofiltration basic solution in continuous hemofiltration in children. Method: The clinical data of 18 patients with citrate anticoagulation in continuous hemofiltration in children, excluding the hepatic failure and septic shock cases, were analyzed retrospectively, from September 2015 to August 2016 in Intensive Care Unit of the Children′s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.The commercial calcium hemofiltration basic solution was used as displacement liquid . The blood gas analysis, electrolyte, four coagulation tests during the treatment and the corresponding relations of quantity of blood flow(QB), quantity of citrate flow(QCi), quantity of sodium bicarbonate flow(QSB), quantity of calcium flow(QCa), quantity of filtered solution flow (Qf) were monitored. Meanwhile, the blood gas analysis, electrolyte, four coagulation tests, useful life of filter, bleeding and clotting events internal and external before, during and after the treatments were monitored, too. And the common complications of citrate anticoagulation, such as hypocalcaemia, metabolic alkalosis, citrate accumulation and hypernatremia were observed. Result: Continuous hemofiltration was applied in 18 patients for 734.5 hours, and the average useful life of filter was (25±11)h.There was no obvious clotting event. There were 168 groups of datum of the blood gas analysis, electrolyte, four coagulation tests during the treatment and the relationships of QB, QCi, QSB, QCa, Qf had been collected. The relationships of the initial parameter settings of QB, QCi, QSB, QCa and Qf were concluded as QCi=1.8×QB, QCa=0.12×QB, QSB=0.01×Qf . There were 150 times(89.3%)of extracorporeal ionized calcium(iCa_E²⁺) and 162 times(96.4%) of intracorporal ionized calcium(iCa_I²⁺) reached the anticoagulation target. Although all the comparisons of Na⁺ ((136.2±4.1)vs.(138.2±2.4)vs.(138.5±3.9)mmol/L), iCa²⁺ ((1.07±0.11)vs.(1.21±0.12)vs.(1.17±0.09)mmol/L), HCO₃^- ((22±4)vs.(28±5)vs. (26±4)mmol/L) among before, during and after treatment had significant difference(F=6.414, 18.950, 19.151; P=0.002, 0.000, 0.000). Each mean parameter was within the nearly normal range, except that the HCO₃^- increased slightly. High HCO₃^- was the most common complications, which happened 87 times (51.8%) during the treatment and 11 cases(37.9%) after the treatment. There was none with refractory hypocalcemia and total ionized calcium(TCa²⁺ )/iCa²⁺ above 2.5, which hints the accumulation of citrate. Conclusion The commercialized displacement liquid containing calcium can be used in RCA-CHF in children safely and simply.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease. Its pathogenesis involves many factors such as environment, heredity, aging, diet, personal preference and underlying diseases. And the complex pathogenic factors of AD lead to many social and economic problems such as delayed diagnosis, difficulty of drug research and development, low cure rate and high cost of care. In this paper, the relationship between AD disease progression and its risky diseases such as metabolic diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases and cardiovascular diseases was analyzed based on energy metabolism abnormalities. The role of energy metabolism signal/path abnormality activity in the course of risk disease to AD disease was analyzed. Finally, it is suggested that the prevention and treatment of risk disease evolution and adjustment of abnormal energy metabolism signals may be effective strategies for the treatment of AD.

Objective: Based on the Chinese Medicine Heritage Auxiliary Platform (V2.5) software, to analyze the differences in prescriptions for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Vascular dementia in the literature of the past five years, and to find the rules of prescription. Methods: Screening CNKI, VIP, and Wan fang data for nearly 5 years to find the prescriptions for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Vascular dementia, and constructing a prescription database through the Chinese Medicine Heritage Auxiliary Platform (V2.5) software, and utilizing the Data mining algorithms such as association rules and entropy clustering of the software. Compare the frequency of medication, the drug.s natural, flavor and channel tropism, the common drug pairs, the potential drug pairs, and the differences in the new prescriptions used in the treatment of senile dementia and vascular dementia. Results: 13 of the top 20 high frequency herbs used in AD and VD are the same, the other is different. Its common pathogenesis reflect the interaction of deficiency, stasis and phlegm, while the difference shows that AD focuses on spleen and kidney deficiency, insufficiency of essence and blood, but VD focuses on the interaction of phlegm blood stasis and toxic turbidity obstruction in collaterals. They both use warm herbs in nature and flavor, but AD mainly use sweet and warm herbs, followed by calm and cold herbs, while VD mainly use bitter and warm herbs, followed by cold and calm herbs; The channel tropisms both are mainly liver channel, followed by heart channel, spleen channel and kidney channel. In addition, 16 potential medicine pairs, 7 new prescriptions, 26 new prescriptions and 13 new prescriptions were found. Conclusion:Prescriptions for AD and VD have similarities and differences, with emphasis on each other, suggesting that the former focuses on warming Yang and invigorating spleen, while the latter focuses on resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis, detoxifying and awakening the brain.