Randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered as the gold standard for the efficacy assessment of medicines. With the increasing number of Chinese patent drugs for treatment of type 2 diabetes, the methodology of post-marketing RCTs evaluating the efficacy and specific effect has become more important.

Objective To discuss the reasons of false judgments of localization of the rupture aneurysms and find the way to fix this problem in patients with multiple intracranial aneurysms. Methods The clinical data of 25 consecutive patients, who presented with their first spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage and had multiple intracranial aneurysms from 2003 to 2009 in our hospital, were analyzed retrospectively. The rupture aneurysms were determined according to Nehls' method that reported before, and the supposed responsible rupture aneurysms w0ere clipped within 48 hours after hemorrhage in all patients. More aneurysms that could not be accessed in the same surgical session were surgically terated later. Results The location of the rupture aneurysm was verified at the time of surgery in all 25 patients. The concordance rate of the prediction and the reality of the rupture aneurysm was 80% (20/25). Four patients ( 16% ) ,in whom the ruptured aneurysm was not correctly identified,rebled after surgery,and 2 patients died as a result of the rebleeding One patients had no clear diagnosis at the end. Conclusion In the reported cases, about 80% rupture aneurysms could be correctly diagnosed before treatment according to the CT and DSA examinations. If clear diagnosis couldn't be made,additional examinations should be considered, such as CTA or MRI. Rupture aneurysms must be confirmed during the operation and the other aneurysms should be checked to exclude additional responsible aneurysms in all cases.

Objective To evaluate the effect of computer-aided design of composite materials with epoxide acrylate maleic (E) and hydroxyapatite (H) in cranioplasty. Methods A total of 45 patients with cranium defects were treated with cranioplasty by using skull bone flaps made of composite materials including epoxide acrylate maleic (E) and hydroxyapatite (H) ,which was designed with computer aid according to individual requirements. The patients were followed up for 6-36 months. Results After cranioplasty with composite EH, there occurred subcutaneous fluid in one patient and mild bone collapse in one. The composite EH showed good histocompatibility, with no infection or rejection. Conclusion During cranioplasty, use of computer-aided design of composite EH takes advantages of good accuracy, short operation time, good biocompatibility and good clinical efficiency.

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common serious complication of end-stage liver disease. Intestinal microecology is closely associated with the development, progression, and prognosis of SBP, and bacterial translocation is the key pathogenesis of SBP. This article summarizes the intestinal microecology in patients with liver cirrhosis and briefly describes the mechanism of action of intestinal flora in the development and progression of SBP, thus providing a theoretical basis for the clinical regulation of intestinal microecology and treatment of SBP.

Objective:To investigate the nurses' attitude towards open visitation policy in intensive care unit (ICU) and its potential influence factors, and further to provide evidence for carrying out this policy in ICU.Methods:A self-designed, anonymous online questionnaire of "attitude of ICU nurses to open visiting system in ICU" was performed in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China from October to December 2019, using convenient sampling method approach. Only nurses working in ICU (including specialized ICU, but excluding the critical ward in general ward) and willing to participate in the survey were included. The survey included 35 items, including the general information of each participant, the attitude towards the implementation of the open visitation system in ICU and its potential influencing factors. Ordinal Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the significant influencing factors.Results:A total of 1 558 questionnaires were sent out and 1 546 effective questionnaires were retrieved, with a response rate of 99.2%. Overall, 32.2% of them agreed with the policy, 41.3% of them disagree with the policy and 26.5% of them were uncertain. The Ordinal Logistic regression analysis showed that the independent influencing factors of ICU nurses' attitude towards open visitation policy including the possibility of increasing healthcare-associated infection [disagree: β = 1.327, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was 0.242 to 2.413, P = 0.017; uncertain: β = 0.697, 95% CI was 0.244 to 1.151, P = 0.003], the improvement of nurses' job satisfaction (disagree: β = -1.406, 95% CI was -1.750 to -1.062, P = 0.000; uncertain: β = -0.748, 95% CI was -1.030 to -0.466, P = 0.000), the information support for medical staffs from family members (disagree: β = -0.644, 95% CI was -1.048 to -0.240, P = 0.002; uncertain: β = -0.422, 95% CI was -0.721 to -0.124, P = 0.006), the feasibility that the family members can assist the nurses in the basic nursing for patients (uncertain: β = -0.465, 95% CI was -0.729 to -0.202, P = 0.001), reducing the time that a nurse spent on caring for the patients (uncertain: β = 0.349, 95% CI was 0.052 to 0.646, P = 0.021), improving early rehabilitation (disagree: β = -0.593, 95% CI was -1.166 to -0.019, P = 0.043), and getting psychological support for patients from family members (disagree: β = 1.293, 95% CI was 0.426 to 2.159, P = 0.003), family members' satisfaction (disagree: β = -0.981, 95% CI was -1.431 to -0.531, P = 0.000). Conclusion:ICU nurses in China have realized that open visitation policy has positive effect on patients' early rehabilitation, willing to live and satisfaction; meanwhile, this policy may need more improvement in many ways such as healthcare-associated infection control, disinfection and isolation, allocation of human resources and time spent treating and caring for patients.

Objective:To investigate the diagnostic value of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT in detecting N 1 or N 2 metastasis of lymph node (LN) with different densities in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods:A total of 118 patients (68 males, 50 females, age range: 27-87 (65.4±10.8) years) with N 0-N 2 M 0 NSCLC in Beijing Hospital between October 2007 and December 2017 were included in this study. All patients underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT, followed by surgery within 1 month. The pathological findings of the resected hilar mediastinal LN were taken as the gold standard, and ratios of LN metastasis were calculated for different density groups (calcification, partial calcification, hyper density, hypodensity/isodensity). The cut-off values of LN size (short diameter) and the maximum standardized uptake value (SUV max) in the detection of N 1 and N 2 metastases was determined by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and the diagnostic efficiencies were calculated. Independent-sample t test, Mann-Whitney U test and χ2 test (partition of χ2) were used for data analysis. Results:A total of 433 LN has the histopathologic results: 365 LN was in stage N 0, 68 LN was in stage N 1-N 2. There were no metastases in calcification group (0/8). The metastatic LN proportions in partial calcification group (28.6%, 8/28), hypodensity/isodensity group (20.3%, 44/217) were significantly higher than that in the hyper density group (8.9%, 16/180; χ2 values: 7.369, 9.945, both P<0.017 (threshold for partition of χ2)). There was no significant difference between the partial group and hypodensity/isodensity group ( χ2=1.021, P>0.017). The SUV max of N 1+ N 2 group was significantly higher than that in N 0 group (6.94 (4.51, 11.36) vs 2.45 (1.93, 3.42); z=-10.388, P<0.01). According to the ROC curve, the cut-off value of SUV max in detecting hilar and mediastinal LN was 3.66. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for N 1+ N 2 metastasis was 85.3%, 78.9%, 80.0% respectively. The cut-off values of SUV max for hypodensity/isodensity group and hyper density group were 3.66 and 2.79 respectively, and the corresponding sensitivities, specificities, accuracies and positive predictive values (PPV) were 93.2%, 86.7%, 88.0%, 64.1% vs 93.8%, 57.9% ( χ2=10.724), 61.1% ( χ2=7.326, P<0.01), 17.9%( χ2=32.971, P<0.01). The specificity of LN size (1.0 cm)+ SUV max was significantly higher that of LN size or SUV max alone (94.2% vs 80.9%, 86.7%; χ2 values: 14.048, 5.661, both P<0.05) in hypodensity/isodensity group. The specificity and accuracy of LN size (1.0 cm)+ SUV max were significantly higher those of SUV max alone ( χ2 values: 58.043, 37.037, both P<0.01) in hyper density group. Conclusions:18F-FDG PET/CT is useful in diagnosing the N 1+ N 2 metastases in hypodensity/isodensity LN, but has limitation in diagnosing the partial calcification LN. Combination of lymph node short diameter and SUV max cut-off value can improve the diagnostic specificity or accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT for hypodensity/isodensity and high density LN.

Objective To investigate the serum levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70),and evaluate their clinical significance in brain injury of children with complicated febrile convulsions (CFC).Methods Forty-three patients with CFC,41 children with simple febrile convulsions and 36 healthy controls were recruited in this study; their serum levels of BDNF and HSP70 were detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); correlation between levels of BDNF and HSP70 and both time of twitch duration and twitch frequency were analyzed.Results The mean serum concentrations of BDNF (4.96±1.21 ng/mL) and HSP70 (2.86± 0.93 ng/mL) in patients of CFC group were significantly higher than those in patients of simple febrile convulsions and healthy controls (P＜0.05); while no significant difference was noted between patients of simple febrile convulsions and healthy controls (P＞0.05).These changes were closely related to the duration time and frequency of convulsions(r=0.553,P=0.015; r=0.587,P=0.012; r=0.526,P=0.024; r=0.562,P=0.018).Conclusions It is sure that some brain injury exists in children with CFC; BDNF and HSP-70 might be one of the molecular mechanisms for the brain injury and protective effect.

Objective:To analyze the effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor/angiotensin receptor blocker (ACEI/ARB) on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with hypertension, and to provide an evidence for selecting antihypertensive drugs in those patients.Methods:Clinical data were retrospectively analyzed in 58 COVID-19 patients with hypertension admitted to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center from January 20 to February 22, 2020, including epidemiological history, clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, chest CT and outcome. Patients were divided into ACEI/ARB group and non-ACEI/ARB group.Results:Twenty-six patients were in ACEI/ARB group and the other 32 patients in non-ACEI/ARB group, with median age 64.0 (49.5, 72.0) years and 64.0 (57.0, 68.8) years respectively. The median time to onset was 5(3, 8) days in ACEI/ARB group and 4 (3, 7) days in non-ACEI/ARB group, the proportion of patients with severe or critical illness was 19.2% and 15.6% respectively. The main clinical symptoms in two groups were fever (80.8% vs. 84.4%) and cough (23.1% vs. 31.3%). The following parameters were comparable including lymphocyte counts, C-reactive protein, lactate dehydrogenase, D-dimer, bilateral involvement in chest CT (76.9% vs. 71.9%), worsening of COVID-19 (15.4% vs. 9.4%), favorable outcome (92.3% vs. 96.9%) between ACEI/ARB group and non-ACEI/ARB group respectively (all P>0.05). However, compared with non-ACEI/ARB group, serum creatinine [80.49 (68.72, 95.30) μmol/L vs. 71.29 (50.98, 76.98) μmol/L, P=0.007] was higher significantly in ACEI/ARB group. Conclusions:ACEI/ARB drugs have no significant effects on baseline clinical parameters (serum creatine and myoglobin excluded) , outcome, and prognosis of COVID-19 patients with hypertension. Antihypertensive drugs are not suggested to adjust in those patients, but the potential impairment of renal function as elevation of serum creatinine should be paid attention in patients administrating ACEI/ARB drugs.

ObjectiveTo investigate the clinical features of acute hepatitis E (AHE) patients with or without severe jaundice and the risk factors for severe jaundice. MethodsA retrospective analysis was performed for the clinical data of 179 AHE patients who were admitted to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Affiliated to Fudan University from January 1, 2018 to March 26, 2020. According to whether total bilirubin (TBil) was ＞171 μmol/L, the patients were divided into AHE-mild jaundice (AHE-M) group and AHE-severe jaundice (AHE-S) group, and the two groups were compared in terms of clinical data and laboratory markers. The t test or the Mann-Whitney U test or the chi-squared test was used for comparison, and a binary logistic regression analysis was used to identify independent risk factors. ResultsOf all 179 patients, 101 (56.42%) were found to have severe jaundice. Compared with the AHE-M group, the AHE-S group had a significantly higher proportion of male patients (80.20% vs 61.54%, χ2=7.612, P=0.006), a significantly longer length of hospital stay ［29 (19-45) days vs 18 (14-22) days, Z=-6.035, P＜0.001］, a significantly higher number of patients with liver failure (23 vs 0, χ2=18.373, P＜0.001), and a significantly poorer prognosis (P＜0.001). Compared with the AHE-M group, the AHE-S group had significantly higher baseline anti-HEV-IgM, alpha-fetoprotein, and liver elasticity (Z=-3.534, -3.588, and -4.496, all P＜0.001), significantly lower baseline CD4 (Z=-2.015, P＜0.05), significantly higher peak values of TBil, direct bilirubin, creatinine, prothrombin time, international normalized ratio, and absolute neutrophil count (Z=-11.016, -10.926, -2.726, -4.787, -4.989, and -6.016, all P＜0.01), a significantly lower peak value of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) (Z=-4.55, P＜0001), and significantly lower valley values of albumin, prealbumin (PA), and absolute lymphocyte count (Z=-4.685, -5.087, and -4.818, all P＜0.001). The logistic regression analysis showed that anti-HEV-IgM (odds ratio ［OR］=1.022, 95% confidence interval ［CI］: 1005-1.039, P=0.012), GGT (OR=0.995, 95%CI: 0.993-0.998, P=0.001), PA (OR=0.991, 95%CI: 0.983-0.999, P=0.02), and neutrophils (OR=1.486, 95%CI: 1.169-1.889, P=0.001) were independent risk factors for severe jaundice in AHE patients. ConclusionThere is a relatively high proportion of male patients among the AHE patients with severe jaundice, with a long length of hospital stay, a large number of patients with liver failure, and poor prognosis. Anti-HEV-IgM, GGT, PA, and neutrophils are independent risk factors for severe jaundice in AHE patients.

Sarcopenia is a common complication in patients with liver cirrhosis, with an incidence rate of up to 40%-70%, which increases the incidence rate of complications in patients with liver cirrhosis and seriously affects patients' quality of life and survival time. Sarcopenia in liver cirrhosis has a complex pathogenesis, and its clinical manifestations are easily ignored. No consensus has been reached on diagnostic criteria, and there are few targeted therapeutic drugs. Therefore, it should be taken seriously by clinician and the research on pathogenesis and therapeutic drugs should be strengthened.