1.Toxicological study on Tibetan medicine MNXT granule
Mei HONG ; Qinhong CHEN ; Youju LIU ; Zhijin WANG
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2013;(1):29-33
Objective The Toxicology study of Tibetan medicine MNXT granules was observed to provide basis for clinical safe medication.Methods The acute toxicity test in mice was conducted with the oral maximum-tolerated dosage,and then toxicity reaction and death situations in mice at 14d after the intragastric administration (ig) one day at 3 times was observed; Long-term toxic test:the does of MNXT granule 13.23 g/kg · d-1,6.667 g/kg· d-1,3.33 g/kg· d-1 (equivalent 100,50,25 times of the clinical dosage) were continuous administered to medicating groups for 30 days,and blank group was given distilled water instead.The rats'behavior,appearance,food intake,water intake,body weight were observed,and the blood,blood biochemical parameters,the main organ coefficient,anatomical,pathological morphology were determined at 30d after administration and 15d after withdrawal.Results The maximum study medication dose of Tibet an medicine MNXT granule was 39 g/kg (equivalent to 300 times the clinical dose) and the mice had not any adverse reaction.Long-term toxicity test:the rats' blood and blood biochemical parameters,the main organ coefficient,anatomical,pathological morphology had not significant differences compared with the blank grou? during the 30d administration and 15d withdrawal.Conclusion Toxicity of the Tibetan medicine MNXT granules was not observed in acute or long-term toxicity test.
2.Research in effectiveness of home protocol nursing on liquid intake compliance improvement of patients undergoing hemodialysis
Xiaofang LIU ; Ningbo TANG ; Rang XU ; Fanyuan ZHANG ; Zhijin LIANG
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2009;25(26):4-6
Objective To observe the effect of home nursing based upon protocol nursing theory on liq-uid intake compliance improvement of patients undergoing hemedialysis. Methods Forty-eight HD patients of hquid intake un-compliance were randomized into the observation group and the control group with 24 cases in each group. The control group received routine nursing, the observation group was given home care instruc-tion based upon protocol nursing theory for 1 month. The two groups both received follow-up for 3 months and their liquid intake comphance were evaluated before and after intervention. The relationship between family sup-port and relative increase of body weight during hemodialysis was also evaluated. Results The IDGW relative magnitude was lower, the compliance of liquid intake was higher, the level of family support was higher in the observation group than those of the control group. There was negative correlation between the family support and the IDGW relative magnitude the IDGW relative magnitude, family support, comphance of liquid intake. Conclusions Home care nursing based upon nursing theory facilitate patients to get effect family support, increase the compliance of hquid intake and make IDGW within desirable range.
3.Comparing three screening schemes of colorectal cancer in general population
Angao XU ; Zhijin YU ; Xuhui ZHONG ; Aihua GAN ; Jihong LIU
Chinese Journal of Health Management 2009;3(3):155-158
Objective Comparing three screening schemes of colorectal cancer in general population to provide scientific basis for coiorectal cancer screening in communities. Methods Questionnaire screening among high-risk population and immunoassay fecal occult blood test (FOBT) were used for colorectal cancer detection. Colonescopy and pathological test were considered as gold standard of screening results. Results Nine coloreetal cancers and 796 colorectal adenomas were detected in 68 953 participants. Mean onset age of coloreetal adenoma was 7. 7 years earlier than colorectal cancer. For questionnaire and FOBT,the sensitivity was 44.4% ,77.8% and 100.0% ,while the specificity was 98.6%, 95.5% and 94.4%, respectively. The Youden index of questionnaire, FOBT, and questionnaire-FOBT sequential method was 0.4,0.7,and 0.9,and the likelihood ratio ( +/- ) was 32.7/0.6,17. 2/0.2,and 17.8/0.0,respectively. When 50 was used as initial age of screening, screening receivers accounted for 9.7% ,and 66. 7% colorectal cancer could be detected. When 40 was used as initial age of screening, screening receivers and cost increased by 57.1% ,and only 11.1% more patients with colorectal cancer could be detected. Conclusions Questionnaire-FOBT sequential method has high sensitivity and specificity of colorectal cancer screening. Screening at 50 year-old may be better for community residents. The time of colorectal adenoma developed to colorectal cancer is about 8 years.
4. Advances in etiology and mechanism of structural nasal obstruction
Zhijin ZHANG ; Xuwen YANG ; Xuan LI ; Jinfeng LIU
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2021;35(7):666-672
Summary: Structural nasal obstruction(SNO) is a series of diseases caused by congenital or acquired structural anatomical abnormalities of nasal airway and its surrounding tissues, which leads to increased nasal ventilation resistance. The effect of medication drugs for SNO is poor and surgical intervention is often needed. However, the abnormal structure of nasal airway is very complex, including the periphery of nasal airway, internal nasal airway, the front and rear of nasal airway and complex factors. These abnormal structures may interfere with the nasal airflow mechanics by changing the nasal ventilation volume and disrupting the symmetry of the bilateral nasal cavity, and finally lead to subjective feeling of nasal obstruction. In addition, the structure of nasal airway has plasticity. After the abnormal structure appears, the corresponding compensation of nasal airway can occur to ensure normal nasal ventilation and bilateral nasal cavity symmetry. Therefore, the SNO is the result of the failure of nasal airway remodeling after the appearance of abnormal structures. The etiology of SNO is complex, involving original structural abnormalities, nasal symmetry changing and nasal airway structure remodeling. Therefore, accurate identification of the main factors leading to SNO is the vitalpremise of making personalized nasal ventilation surgery.
5.Blood supply patterns and clinical application of the bilobate anterolateral thigh perforator flap
Zhijin LIU ; Jihui JU ; Shengzhe LIU ; Rong ZHOU ; Guodong JIANG ; Lei LI
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics 2021;41(4):211-218
Objective:To investigate the blood supply pattern and characteristics of bilobate anterolateral thigh flaps, and to summarize the clinical experience.Methods:Date of 102 cases of limb wounds repaired by bilateral anterolateral thigh perforator flaps from March 2014 to July 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. There were 80 males and 22 females with an average age of 40.7 years (range, 9-66 years). All of the patients suffered from limb trauma with complex tissue defects, among which 29 cases had two adjacent and discontinuous wound surfaces on the same limb, and the area ranged from 5 cm×5 cm to 30 cm×18 cm, while the other 73 cases remained a single wound with the area ranged from 12 cm×11 cm to 27 cm×15 cm. Ultrasonic Doppler was used to locate the perforating branches. According to different patterns of blood supply, flaps of different types were designed and applied respectively. For those who with perforating branches of common trunk type or fascial type, the wound surface can be covered by the flap directly; for those who with perforating branches of double trunks type or mixed type, the turbocharging technique was performed after dissection of the pedicles of the flap, while the wound was repaired by reconnection. All the donor sites were sutured directly.Results:Total of 105 bilobed flaps were designed in 102 patients, including 43 flaps of common trunk type, 30 flaps of double trunks type, 24 flaps of fascial type and 8 flaps of mixed type. The single harvested flap area ranged from 6 cm×5 cm to 20 cm×9 cm. One patient's one piece of the bilobed flap repairing two wounds suffered an arterial crisis at 17 h after surgery. The surgery confirmed there was an intractable arterial spasm and the crisis was relieved after a vein trans-plantation. Then about 4 cm×3 cm superficial necrosis appeared in the most distal part of the flap and healed in secondary after dressing changes. Two cases with single wounds suffered from a vein crisis at 48 h after operation. After removing the suture and blood letting, the flaps survived a week later. The average healing time was 19 days (range, 8-83 days). All the thigh donor sites healed by first stage. All the cases were followed-up for an average period of 16 month (range, 6-70 months). The latest follow-up showed that the flaps were of good color and texture, and the sensation of the flaps recovered partially. According to the British Medical Research Council sensory rating scale: 21 cases were grade S2 and 81 cases were grade S3. According to the revascularization assessments of digital replantation standard by Hand Surgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association, the results were excellent in 91 cases, good in 11 cases, with excellent and good rate of 100%. Linear scars were left in most donor sites and the VAS scores were all zero. 5 cases had a large scar area which the width was more than 3 cm, but there was no scar contracture or pain. 9 cases had an abnormal sensation in the donor area in the early stage and recovered gradually 3 months later without any movement disorder.Conclusion:The use of the bilobed anterolateral femoral perforator flap with different blood supply patterns to repair the wounds of extremities could overcome the lack or deficiency of blood supply caused by perforators with different sources. To clarify the blood supply types is conducive to the flap cutting and leaf splitting during the operation, which greatly improves the survival rate of the flap.
6.Bilobed anterolateral thigh perforator flap pidicled with the oblique branch of lateral circumflex femoral artery in repair of the wound in extremity
Zhijin LIU ; Jihui JU ; Junnan CHENG ; Lin YANG ; Shengzhe LIU ; Tao ZHANG ; Ruixing HOU
Chinese Journal of Microsurgery 2021;44(2):152-156
Objective:To investigate the feasibility and clinical efficacy of the bilobed anterolateral femoral perforator flap pidicled with the oblique branch of lateral femoral circumflex artery in repair of the wounds in extremities.Methods:A study was conducted on 36 patients with complex limb wounds from December, 2014 to May, 2020. Thirty patients had single-wound sized from 10.0 cm×10.0 cm to 23.0 cm×17.0 cm, and 6 patients had 2 adjacent and discontinuous wounds sized from 4.0 cm×5.0 cm to 11.0 cm×9.0 cm. A total of 78 perforators were identified in routine preoperative CDU examination, and 67 perforators were confirmed. According to the actual requirement of the perforator confirmed in surgery, 19 flaps were designed with completely split up into bilobed flaps and 17 bilobed fascial flaps were designed with segmented skin and deep fascia. The blood supply of flaps relies on the anastomosis of oblique branch with the recipient vessels, therefore bridged blood Flow-through anastomosis was performed in 8 flaps. All thigh donor sites were sutured directly. Regular follow-up were made after surgery.Results:In this group, 35 cases of bilobed flaps survived successfully. Venous crisis was found in 1 case of flap repairing 2 wounds after the operation and was relieved 7 days later by remove some stitches and bloodletting. The donor sites healed by first intension, and the wound healing time was 11-83 days. All patients were followed-up for 6-39 months. The flaps had good colour and texture with S 2-S 3 sensory. All the donor sites left linear scars except 1 where left with a large scar without contracture and pain. Conclusion:The repair of the wounds in extremities by bilobed anterolateral thigh perforator flaps pedicled with the oblique branch of the lateral femoral circumflex artery could obtain a more concealed donor site. It acts as a beneficial supplement when a bilobed flap cannot be harvested on the descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex artery.
7.Long term follow-up of a degloving injury of distal thumb repaired with a combined wrap-around flap of hallux nail flap and tibial flap of the second toe: A case report
Shengzhe LIU ; Jihui JU ; Zhijin LIU ; Xiangnan ZHANG ; Junnan CHENG ; Ruixing HOU
Chinese Journal of Microsurgery 2021;44(2):234-236
Degloving injury of distal thumb is common in hand surgery. Generally, the degloving tissue is severely damaged without conditions for replantation. It is often treated by methods of stump revision, local flap coverage, free second toe reconstruction, and so on. It inevitably leads to a shortening of distal phalanx, sacrifice of the whole toe and poor appearance after repair. The hallux nail flap is considered to be the best to treat this kind of injury. However, the traditional wrap-around flap excises the toe in a large range and has many complications in the donor site. In April, 2010, a case of degloving injury of the distal thumb was repaired with a combined wrap-around flap of the hallux nail flap and the tibial flap of the second toe. The patient was followed-up for 10 years in our hospital. Both of the appearance and function of the patient's thumb are well recovered.
8.Ultra-sensitive quantification of the colorectal cancer-specific NDRG4 gene methylation levels in stool
Zhijin YAN ; Yunlong LIU ; Bingjie ZOU ; Qinxin SONG ; Taiming LI ; Guohua ZHOU
Journal of Medical Postgraduates 2016;29(10):1031-1035
Objective The NDRG4 gene methylation in stool is a candidate biomarker for non?invasive diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, the traditional methods for methylation detection could not be well applied to stool samples due to the low sensitivity and low specificity. The aim of this study was to develop a highly sensitive and specific method for quantifying the methylated NDRG4 gene in stools. Methods Forty one stool samples were collected from 12 colorectal cancer patients, 4 adenoma patients and 25 nor?mal persons. The invasive reaction was combined with real?time PCR and the relative quantification was performed by 2-ΔCT method to develop the highly sensitive and specific methylated DNA detection method, which was used for detecting NDRG4 methylation levels in 41 of stool samples. Results The sensitivity of the method was as low as 10 copies of methylated NDRG4 gene fragments. The specificity was high enough to distinguish 0.01% of methylated fragments from un?methylated fragments and 105 copies of unmethylated NDRG4 fragments gave noamplification signals. The detection results from 41 of stool samples showed that detection rate of the NDRG4 gene in stool from adenoma and colorectal cancer groups had a significant difference comparing to that from the normal group. Conclusion The 2-ΔCT method could accurately quantify the methylation levels of the NDRG4 gene in stool samples, and provide an efficient tool for non?invasive colorectal cancer detection.
9.Application of intraoperative nerve electrophysiological monitoring inlumbosacral spinal cord tumor resection
Haiping LIAN ; Zhijin LI ; Baixiang HE ; Xiaofang LIU ; Gang BAO ; Wei WANG ; Minxue LIAN ; Chuankun LI
Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University(Medical Sciences) 2016;(2):178-182
Objective To study intraoperative neural electrophysiological monitoring applied in lumbosacral spinal cord tumor resection.Methods We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 212 patients undergoing lumbosacral spinal cord tumor resection with or without intraoperative neural electrophysiological monitoring in our hospital.The patients were divided into two groups:124 patients in the monitored group received intraoperative neural electrophysiological monitoring while 88 ones in the control group did not.The monitoring was performed by recording the cortical somatosensory evoked potential (CSEP),dermatomal somatosensory evoked potential (DSEP) and electromyography (EMG).The patients were followed up for 3-6 months and their postoperative outcome was analyzed.Results There were significant differences in the outcome (P <0.05),but no difference was found in the incidence of complications between the monitored group and the control group.The sensitivity of CSEP +DSEP+EMG was 100%,and the specificity was 55.9% in the former group.Conclusion Combined monitoring with CSEP,DSEP and EMG during lumbosacral spinal cord tumor resection is valuable in protecting the spinal nerve roots and ensuring better operation safety.
10.Synthesis of the PLA-PEG-PLL gadolinium loaded nanoprobe targeted to vascular endothelial growth factor used for the molecular imaging of micro-hepatic carcinoma
Dexin YU ; Zhijin CHEN ; Na ZHANG ; Yongjun LIU ; Linlin WANG ; Qing WANG ; Xiangxing MA
Chinese Journal of Hepatobiliary Surgery 2013;(3):215-219
Objective This study aims to synthesize a novel gadolinium loaded nanoprobe targeted to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and assess its clinical value for imaging micro hepatic carcinoma.Methods A carrier was made by the biocompatible polymer material polylactic acid-polyethylene glycol-poly-L-lysinenanoparticles (PLA-PEG-PLLs).The targeted nanoprobe was obtained with anti-VEGF antibody and gadolinium (Gd) bonding to the surface of the carrier.MRI in vitro determined the T1 relaxivity of the nanoprobe.A live cancer model enhanced MR scan was performed by injecting targeted nanoprobes into the tail vein of grafted H22 tumor mice.The enhanced characteristics of the subcutaneous tumors and micro-heatic carcinoma were then reviewed.Results The particle size of the VEGF-targeted PLA-PEG-PLL gadolinium loaded nanoprobe was 85.8±7.2 nm with a zeta potential of 21.63±2.4 mV.The R1 relaxivity of the targeted nanoprobe was 18.394 mmol/s at 3.0 T when its gadolinium concentration was 8.0 μmol/ml.The enhanced MR scan using targeted probes showed that the big and micro-subcutaneous cancer exhibited a specifically delayed enhancement with an enhanced peak value at 2 or 3 hours,rather than the enhancement of the tumor using the nontargeted nanoparticles.Conclusion In conclusion,the VEGF targeted PLA-PEG-PLL gadolinium loaded nanoprobe was synthesized successfully,showed a high relaxivity,achieved targeted imaging of the micro-hepatic carcinoma,and exhibits a promising potential in the detection of this liver cancer.