BACKGROUND:Mental material has shadow intervention effects on multi-slice helical CT (MDCT).Mental wall thickness and lumens inner diameter in stent structure can significantly affect longitudinal axis imaging quality of MDCT target vessel stent.However.there are few studies involved in this aspect.OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effect of various coronary stent materials and structures on patency images of target vessel by MDCT evaluation,and to provide clinical evidences for improving stent technique.DESIGN,TIME AND SETTING:The comparison observation was conducted at the Shenzhou Hospital,Shenyang Medical College.and Shengjing Hospital,China Medical University from January 2006 to December 2008.PARTICIPANTS:A total of 139 patients with coronary heart disease who were treated with stent implantation were divided into material and construct groups (227 stents were implanted).There were 92 stainless steel stents,135 nick-eltitanium alloy stents,85 thin mental wall stents (<140μm).142 thick mental wall stents (≥140μm).71 small diameter stents (<3 mm),and 156 big diameter stents (≥3mm).METHODS:During following up,patients were checked using 64-slice helical CT and routine coronary arteriongraphy to compare patency images of target vessels in the two groups.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:MDCT was scored by four-mark standard to evaluate sensitivity,specificity,accuracy,positive and negative predictive values of MDCT.RESULTS:A total of 227 stents were implanted into 139 patients.CT images of stainless steel stent group were poorer than nickel-titanium alloy group,and the indicators including image score,sensitivity,specificity,positive and negative predictive values of the stainless steel stent group were significantly less than nickel-titanium alloy group (P<0.05).CT images of thick-wall stent were poorer than thin-wall stent,while the indicators including image score,sensitivity,specificity,positive and negative predictive values of the thick-wall stent were significantly less than thin-wall stent (P<0.05).CT images of small-diameter stent were poorer than large-diameter stent,while the indicators including image score,sensitivity,specificity,positive and negative predictive values of the small-diameter stent were significantly less than large-diameter stent (P<0.05).CONCLUSION:Materials,wall thickness and diameter of coronary stent may influence images of target vessels via MDCT evaluation.

The Omicron family of SARS-CoV-2 variants are currently driving the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we analyzed the clinical laboratory test results of 9911 Omicron BA.2.2 sublineages-infected symptomatic patients without earlier infection histories during a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Shanghai in spring 2022. Compared to an earlier patient cohort infected by SARS-CoV-2 prototype strains in 2020, BA.2.2 infection led to distinct fluctuations of pathophysiological markers in the peripheral blood. In particular, severe/critical cases of COVID-19 post BA.2.2 infection were associated with less pro-inflammatory macrophage activation and stronger interferon alpha response in the bronchoalveolar microenvironment. Importantly, the abnormal biomarkers were significantly subdued in individuals who had been immunized by 2 or 3 doses of SARS-CoV-2 prototype-inactivated vaccines, supporting the estimation of an overall 96.02% of protection rate against severe/critical disease in the 4854 cases in our BA.2.2 patient cohort with traceable vaccination records. Furthermore, even though age was a critical risk factor of the severity of COVID-19 post BA.2.2 infection, vaccination-elicited protection against severe/critical COVID-19 reached 90.15% in patients aged ≽ 60 years old. Together, our study delineates the pathophysiological features of Omicron BA.2.2 sublineages and demonstrates significant protection conferred by prior prototype-based inactivated vaccines.
Humans ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; COVID-19/prevention & control* ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Pandemics/prevention & control* ; China/epidemiology* ; Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control* ; Vaccination