Objective To evaluate the value of revised Geneva score, Daniel ECG score and age-adjusted D-dimer for predicting pulmonary embolism(PE).Methods A total of 91 cases suspected as pulmonary embolism were collected, and 52 cases were diagnosed as pulmonary embolism by computed tomographic pulmonary angiography(CTPA) results.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC) curves and diagnostic test evaluation indexes were used to evaluate the probability of PE predicted by the revised Geneva score,Daniel ECG score, age-adjusted D-dimer and combination of these two clinical scores and age-adjusted D-dimer.Results The confirmed PE was 21.4% with a low probability(revised Geneva score 0~3 points),55.4% in intermediate probability(4~10 points),85.7% in high probability(score≥11 points).The prevalence of PE was 33.3% with a low clinical probability (Daniel ECG score<2 points)and 70.7% with a high clinical probability(Daniel ECG score≥2 points).The sensitivity and specificity of age-adjusted D-dimer in predicting pulmonary embolism were 92.3%,69.2%.The area under curve of the ROC curve(AUC)in the revised Geneva score and Daniel ECG score has no significant difference(Z=0.979).The negative predictive value of the revised Geneva score, Daniel ECG score combined with D-dimer in pulmonary embolism were 100.0% and 87.5%.Conclusion All of revised Geneva score, Daniel ECG score and age-adjusted D-dimer have certain predictive value on pulmonary embolism , and the revised Geneva score combined with age-adjusted D-dimer can be more safely exclude pulmonary embolism.

Objective To detect the changes in DNA loads of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 6/11 in lesions of patients with condyloma accuminatum (CA) before and after 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT).Methods After removal of warts by electrocautery,HPV6/11-positive patients with CA were divided into two groups:treatment group (32 cases) receiving two sessions of ALA-PDT with intervals of 7-10 days,and control group (29 cases) remaining untreated.Exfoliated cells were collected from the lesional sites of these patients before and 3 months after the first session of ALA-PDT,and fluorescence-based quantitative PCR was conducted to estimate the DNA loads of HPV 6/11 in these cells.Results Three months after the first session of ALA-PDT,89.7％ (26/29) of the patients in the treatment group and 68.4％ (13/19) in the control group became HPV DNA negative,with significant differences between the treatment group and control group in the DNA loads of HPV ((1.70 ± 7.86) × 105 vs.(1.27 ± 2.21) × 106 copies/ml,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion ALA-PDT can reduce HPV DNA loads in lesions of CA in patients.

AIM:To discuss the changes of IL-17, IL-21 in glucocorticoid therapy of active thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) and analyze the relation with results.METHODS:The 67 patients (134 eyes) of TAO in our hospital, were divided into activity group(32 patients 64 eyes) and atypical activity group(35 patients 70 eyes) according clinical activity score (CAS) grading standard, and 30 cases of healthy as control group at the same time.The activity group were treated by glucocorticoid therapy treatment, and proceed the CAS scores before and after treatment, measured the degree of exophthalmus and width of palpebral fissure.At the same time, compared the expression level of IL-17 and IL-21 in all groups, and analyzed the correlation between the IL-17 and IL-21 and CAS score.RESULTS:Compared with control group, expressions of IL-17 and IL-21 in TAO patients were significantly higher (P<0.05).The expressions of IL-17 and IL-21 in active period TAO patients were higher than atypical activity (P<0.05).After glucocorticoid treatment, the expressions of IL-17 in active period TAO patients decreased significantly(P<0.05), and it was significantly positive correlation with CAS score (before treatment:r=0.8847,P=0.042;after treatment:r=0.8886,P=0.0439) the expression of IL-21 in active period TAO patients was significantly positive correlation with CAS score (before treatment:r=0.8893, P=0.0435;after treatment:r=0.8876,P=0.045).CONCLUSION:IL-17 and IL-21 is closely related to the TAO disease activity, and glucocorticoids impact treatment by reducing IL-17 and IL-21 in activity TAO, IL-17 and IL-21 can be used as one of indexes of predicted curative effect and condition in patients with TAO.

China ; Foundations ; Integrative Medicine ; Natural Science Disciplines

Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

Aged ; Anastomosis, Surgical ; Esophageal Neoplasms ; surgery ; Female ; Gastroplasty ; methods ; Humans ; Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms ; surgery ; Male ; Middle Aged

Executive Function ; Humans ; Prefrontal Cortex ; physiology

Objective To discuss the expression and significance of platelet ultrastructure and platelet acti-vating factor(PAF)relationship in patients with acute cerebral infarction.Methods 40 patients with cerebral infarc-tion were chosen onset in 6-24 hours as the observation group,while at the same time 20 cases of healthy adults were selected as the control group.The observation group was given 1-7d of aspirin enteric-coated metformin hydrochloride 300mg,qd,and 8-14d had worship of aspirin enteric-coated metformin hydrochloride 100mg,qd.And before and 1,7, 14 days after treatment,control group and observation group respectively preclude the use of transmission electron microscopy ultrastructure of platelets,before and 1,14 days after treatment automatic blood cell analyzer test was used to analyze the average platelet volume (MPV),platelet count (PLT),platelet volume distribution width (PDW)of the two groups.And 1,2,3,7,14 days after treatment,enzyme-linked immunosorbent determination of double clamp method was used to test the concentration of PAF.Results Before treatment,MPV,PDW and PAF in peripheral blood of the observation group were (9.22 ±1.30)fL,(17.89 ±1.23)%,(211.31 ±11.22)pg/mL,which were sig-nificantly higher than those of the control group (8.68 ±1.03)fL,(16.06 ±1.03)%,(155.49 ±8.70)pg/mL(t =2.082,2.563,14.401,all P <0.05),while PLT was (173.22 ±63.40)×109 /L,which was significantly lower than that in the control group (231.22 ±56.76)×109 /L(t =3.048,P <0.05).After treatment in patients with acute cer-ebral infarction,the MPV,PDW of peripheral blood were (8.43 ±1.28)fL,(16.66 ±1.11)%,which were signifi-cantly lower than before treatment (9.22 ±1.30)fL,(17.89 ±1.23)% (t =1.937,3.320,all P <0.05),while PLT (195.33 ±61.45)×109 /L was significantly higher than before treatment (173.22 ±63.40)×109 /L(t =1.915, P <0.05).PAF peaked in the treatment of 3 days,which was (240.12 ±13.78)pg/mL,and gradually declined after 7 days,which was (215.33 ±16.43)pg/mL,and that after 14 days was(170.27 ±11.40)pg/mL,compared with before treatment (211.31 ±11.22)pg/mL,the difference was statistically significant (t =16.24,P <0.05).Before treatment,platelet shape had irregular,increased pseudopodia,several visible platelet aggregation,and was blend together.And after 14 days treatment in the observation group,platelet ultrastructure greatly recovered.Conclusion Monitoring of MPV,PDW,PAF and PLT in peripheral blood of patients with acute cerebral infarction before and after treatment has important clinical value for disease diagnosis and treatment.

Objective To explore the clinical and imaging features of reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome(RPLES).Methods The data of clinic five cases with RPLES were analyzed retrospectively.Results The primary diseases in this group were hypertension for one case,uraemia for three cases and lupus nephropathy for another.Clinical features of five patients include acute onset of hypertension,headache with vomiting.Neurological symptoms were conscious disturbance,seizures(in 5 cases)and visual disorder(in 3 cases).The movement of limbs were normal.The abnormal laboratery data was renal inadequacy in 5 cases.The findings of imaging of all cases included bilateral white matter of parietal and occipital lobe abnormalities,which appeared as large areas of low density on CT scan,hypo-intense in T1 and hyper-intense in T2 on MRI scan.Four cases presented clinical symptoms improvement in a short time and radiological recovery obviously after anti-hypertensive and anhydration therapy.One patient died caused on brain herniation.Conclusions Clinical features of RPLES is brain damage associated with malignant hypertension or the use of immunosuppressive agents.The most important pathogenesis is considered to be failure of the self regulation of cerebral vascular circulation.The imaging findings are bilateral symmetry cortical and subcortical edema in the posterior areas of the brain.Most patients can be recovery by timely therapy,otherwise the irreversible neuronal injury even death can be also found in very few serious cases.

Objective To investigate the expression of TIMP-1 in brain tissue of perihematoma and the relationship between TIMP-1 and brain edema in experimental intracerebral hemorrhage(ICH). Methods ICH models of rats were established by autologous blood injection. Then the brain water content was measured by comparion of wet and dry weight,the permeability of blood-brain barrier (BBB) was evaluated by evans blue contents,and the expression of TIMP-1 in brain tissue of perihematoma was detected by Western Blot at 1 h,3 h,6 h,12 h,24 h,36 h,48 h,72 h and 7 d total 9 time points after ICH. The relationship among the results were analysed,and compared with the sham operation group. Results Compared with the sham operation group,the brain water contents and evans blue contents were significantly increased at all the time points in ICH group (P