1.Modified Morrow procedure for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: A single-center retrospective study in 318 patients
Jie LI ; Fan WENG ; Nan CHEN ; Yongxin SUN ; Changfa GUO ; Chunsheng WANG ; Yi LIN ; Wenjun DING
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2026;33(03):431-437
Objective To summarize the clinical efficacy of modified Morrow surgery in the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy treated with modified Morrow surgery at Zhongshan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University from 2020 to 2023. Results A total of 318 patients were enrolled, including 156 males and 162 females, with an average age of (55.6±13.1) years. Preoperative echocardiography showed a mean interventricular septal thickness of (18.1±3.8) mm, peak left ventricular outflow tract pressure difference of (86.4±24.9) mm Hg. The surgery time was (162.3±51.0) min, extracorporeal circulation time was (80.9±31.0) min, and aortic occlusion time was (44.8±20.8) min. After the surgery, transesophageal echocardiography showed that the interventricular septal thickness was (11.0±1.8) mm and left ventricular outflow tract peak pressure difference was (9.4±5.1) mm Hg. The incidence rate of postoperative complete left bundle branch block was 45.3%, Ⅲ° atrioventricular block was 3.8%, and postoperative newly developed atrial fibrillation was 3.1%. The postoperative hospital stay was (6.6±4.9) days, and one perioperative death occurred, with a mortality rate of 0.3%. The follow-up time was (10.3±9.4) months, during which the transthoracic echocardiography revealed a ventricular septal thickness of (12.9±2.9) mm and a peak left ventricular outflow tract pressure difference of (13.9±10.0) mm Hg. Conclusion The modified Morrow procedure for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is safe and effective, with good results in the short and medium term.
2.Comparison of clinical efficiency between neuroendoscope-assisted evacuation and navigation-assisted puncture in treating thalamic hemorrhage breaking into the ventricle
Yonghui HUANG ; Yang GAO ; Chen LI ; Puyuan ZHAO ; Tian HUAI ; Rujiang BAI ; Xuefu WANG
Chinese Journal of Clinical Medicine 2026;33(1):108-112
Objective To compare the clinical efficacy of neuroendoscope-assisted evacuation and navigation-assisted puncture drainage in treating thalamic hemorrhage breaking into the ventricle. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 93 patients with thalamic hemorrhage breaking into the ventricle at Taihe Hospital of Wannan Medical College between January 2022 and February 2024. The patients received neuroendoscope-assisted removal of thalamic hematoma combined with contralateral extraventricular drainage (n=44, neuroendoscope group) and navigation-assisted thalamic hematoma puncture drainage combined with contralateral extraventricular drainage (n=49, navigation group), respectively. The treatment efficacy, surgical situation, and prognosis between the two groups were compared. Results The neuroendoscope group had longer operation duration, more intraoperative blood loss, higher hospitalization costs than the navigation group (P<0.05). The neuroendoscope group had higher hematoma clearance rate 3rd after surgery and shorter length of stay than the navigation group (P<0.05). There was no significant difference in the incidence of intracranial infection after surgery between the two groups. The neuroendoscope group had higher Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score at 1 week after surgery and Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) score at 3 months after surgery (P<0.01). Conclusions Compared with navigation-assisted puncture, neuroendoscope-assisted evacuation can improve the thalamic hemorrhage clearance rate, shorten the length of stay, and improve the prognosis of patients.
3.Epidemiological characteristics and prediction of incidence trend of hepatitis E in Huai'an City in 2015-2024
Wenling XIA ; Hongbo ZHANG ; Yang LI ; Ben CAI ; Wenyi ZHANG ; Chunyu WAN ; Qiang GAO
Journal of Public Health and Preventive Medicine 2026;37(4):26-30
Objective To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis E (HE) in Huai'an City from 2015 to 2024, and construct and validate the prediction effect of the Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model, and to provide a scientific basis for HE prevention and control. Methods Data of reported HE cases in Huai'an City from January 2015 to December 2024 were extracted from the National Disease Control and Prevention Information System. Descriptive epidemiological methods were used to analyze the temporal, regional and population distribution characteristics of HE incidence. After data preprocessing, stationarity test and randomness test, the SARIMA model was constructed. The optimal model was selected by minimizing the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). The model performance was evaluated by adjusted R-squared (Adj R2) and root mean square error (RMSE). The monthly incidence rate of HE in Huai'an City in 2025 was predicted and compared with the actual incidence data to validate the model. Results A total of 1 713 HE cases were reported in Huai'an City from 2015 to 2024, showing a fluctuating upward trend. Huaiyin District (339 cases) and Lianshui County (334 cases) were high-incidence areas. The cases were mainly concentrated in people aged 45 and above (83.3%), males (gender ratio 2.37:1) and farmers (70.8%). The optimal model was SARIMA (1,1,1)×(2,0,1)12, with residual as white noise sequence. There was no statistical difference between the actual incidence and predicted value from January to August 2025 (P>0.05). Conclusion HE incidence in Huai'an has obvious aggregation and temporal fluctuation characteristics. The SARIMA model has a good prediction effect, which can provide reference for formulating targeted prevention and control strategies.
4.MADS-Net: a Multi-scale Attention and Dynamic Sparse Mask Fusion Network for Electrical Impedance Tomography Image Reconstruction in Breast Screening
Cheng-Tao YU ; Jia-Hui WANG ; Song-Pei HU ; Huai-Jin CHEN ; Li DING ; Xia YE ; Jia-Feng YAO
Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics 2026;53(9):2480-2496
ObjectiveTo address the key challenges in breast electrical impedance tomography (EIT) reconstruction including the severe ill‑posedness of the inverse problem, limited measurement information from the electrodes, low contrast of small lesions, as well as the common drawbacks of traditional reconstruction methods such as boundary blurring, low spatial resolution, and weak small-target detection capability, and to overcome the limitations of existing deep learning approaches namely low training efficiency, insufficient physical consistency, and substantial information loss during the low‑to‑high dimensional mapping process, this study proposes a multi‑scale attention and dynamic sparse mask fusion network (MADS‑Net). The proposed method aims to enhance high‑resolution reconstruction accuracy, small-lesion detectability, noise robustness, and computational efficiency in breast‑screening-oriented EIT, thereby providing a feasible solution for the application of EIT in breast functional imaging. MethodsThe proposed network adopts a strategy of “locate first, reconstruct later”. It realizes adaptive allocation of computational resources through a dynamic mask module, alleviates information loss in the low-to-high dimensional mapping process via a multi-scale attention mechanism, and embeds physical constraints to improve the physical rationality of reconstruction results. The performance of the proposed method was validated through systematic numerical simulations, agar phantom experiments, and porcine tissue experiments. Comparisons were made with mainstream methods including the Gauss-Newton algorithm, convolutional neural networks, U-Net, and Deep D-Bar. The image correlation coefficient (ICC), root mean square error (RMSE), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) were adopted as quantitative evaluation metrics. Furthermore, lesion‑level evaluation metrics were introduced to assess the capability of different methods in reconstructing abnormal target boundaries and small‑sized target regions. ResultsExperimental results demonstrate that MADS-Net outperforms all comparison methods across all test scenarios. In numerical simulations, it achieves higher accuracy in target morphology and spatial location recovery as well as better background suppression. In agar phantom experiments, its detection and imaging reliability for small targets is significantly superior to the comparison methods. In porcine tissue experiments, the model maintains good generalization performance and can adapt to complex biological tissue imaging scenarios. Quantitative results show that MADS-Net achieves an average ICC of 0.917 6±0.048 8, an RMSE as low as0.060 6±0.031 6, and a PSNR of (23.893 9±2.685 3) dB. It successfully detects tiny targets as small as 5 mm within a 100 mm diameter sensing field, reduces the total training duration by 23.5% compared with the baseline method, and maintains stable reconstruction performance even under strong noise interference. ConclusionThe results demonstrate that MADS-Net achieves favorable EIT reconstruction performance in numerical simulations, agar phantom experiments, and porcine tissue experiments, even under common practical imaging challenges including low signal-to-noise ratio and blurred tissue boundaries. This study provides a methodological reference for further research on EIT in breast-screening-related scenarios and other medical functional imaging tasks, and also offers a low-cost, radiation-free alternative for breast lesion screening that aligns with the clinical demand for non-invasive diagnostic tools. It should be noted that real clinical breast data have not yet been used for validation in this study, and the clinical applicability of the proposed method requires further investigation. Future work will prioritize collecting multi-center real clinical breast datasets, and further optimize the model’s generalization ability to adapt to individual differences in breast tissue composition to promote its clinical application.
5.USP20 promotes pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and migration by stabilizing TWIST
TANG Peipei1,2 ; LIU Ling1,2 ; LI Chunmei1,2 ; JI Runyuan1 ; FU Yufeng1 ; CHEN Song1,2
Chinese Journal of Cancer Biotherapy 2025;32(12):1253-1261
[摘 要] 目的:探究泛素特异性蛋白酶20(USP20)在胰腺癌组织中的表达及其对胰腺癌细胞增殖和迁移的作用及分子机制。方法:用癌症基因组图谱(TCGA)数据库数据分析USP20和扭曲家族碱性螺旋-环-螺旋转录因子(TWIST)在胰腺癌组织中的表达,通过Kaplan-Meier曲线评估其与患者预后的相关性。常规培养正常胰腺细胞HPNE和胰腺癌细胞MIAPaca2、BxPC3、PANC1、SW1990和Aspc1,用WB法检测USP20蛋白在其中的表达。将PANC1和SW1990细胞分为shNC组、shUSP20-1组和shUSP20-2组,用转染试剂将相应的慢病毒感染各组细胞,用qPCR法和WB法验证敲减效率,用CCK-8法、克隆形成实验、划痕愈合实验、Transwell实验和流式细胞术分别检测各组细胞的增殖、迁移能力和细胞周期,WB法检测各组细胞中的上皮-间质转化转录因子相关蛋白的表达。免疫共沉淀和泛素化实验检测USP20是否与TWIST相互作用,阐明USP20是否通过泛素化途径调控TWIST表达。结果:USP20、TWIST mRNA在胰腺癌组织中均呈高表达(均P < 0.05),其表达水平与患者预后呈负相关(均P < 0.05)。USP20蛋白在PANC1 、SW1990、MIAPaca2和BxPC3细胞中均呈高表达(均P < 0.001)。敲减USP20均可明显抑制PANC1和SW1990细胞的增殖、迁移能力(均P < 0.001)。USP20与TWIST相互结合(P < 0.05或P < 0.01),USP20通过降低TWIST泛素化水平稳定其表达(P < 0.01)。结论:USP20在胰腺癌组织中呈高表达,通过去泛素化TWIST稳定其表达,从而促进胰腺癌细胞的增殖和迁移,提示USP20可能成为胰腺癌诊断和治疗的潜在靶点。
6.Exploration of epidemiological characteristics of multidrug-resistant organisms among burn wound patients and prevention and control strategies based on worldwide database for nosocomial outbreaks
Jiao SHAN ; Wei HUAI ; Shanshan MENG ; Meng JIN ; Xiaoyuan BAO ; Yulong CAO ; Hong LI ; Hui CHEN
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology 2025;35(17):2592-2596
OBJECTIVE To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of hospital-associated infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms(MDROs)among the burn wound patients so as to provide bases for taking tar-geted control measures.METHODS A systematic search was conducted in the worldwide database for nosocomial outbreaks,PubMed and CNKI databases so as to summarize and analyze the data regarding to outbreaks of MDROs hospital-associated infections among burn wound patients.RESULTS A total of 61 incidents of MDROs hospital-associated infections outbreaks among the burn wound patients were included,involving 2 293 patients from 21 countries and regions,50(81.97%)of which were reported for the infection sites or colonization sites in-volving burn wound,12(19.67%)involving the respiratory tract,10(16.39%)involving the bloodstream infec-tions.Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(28 incidents,45.90%)was dominant among the pathogens causing the infections,followed by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii(17 incidents,27.87%)and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aureus(9 incidents,14.75%).52 incidents(82.25%)of outbreaks were reported the contact as the major transmission mode.The suspected sources of the outbreaks included the patients(37 incidents,28.46%),health care workers(30 incidents,23.08%),ward environments(28 incidents,21.54%),medical equipments(19 incidents,30.56%),drainage systems(6 incidents,4.62%).The major pre-vention and control measures included environmental cleaning and disinfection,screening of colonization in patients and health care workers,isolation of patients with infections and hand hygiene;8 incidents were taken the measure of closing the ward.CONCLUSIONS The outbreaks of MDROs infections in the burn wound patients are mostly associated with the high frequently contact environments,medical equipments and hand hygiene of health care workers.In view of the peculiarities of the burn wound patients,it is feasible to take the targeted measures based on the summarized prevention and control combinations for MDROs so as to prevent the outbreak of hospital-asso-ciated infections.
7.Perioperative antithrombotic medication use in non-cardiac surgery:a single center survey
Bin-bin DONG ; Yu-tong ZHAO ; Zi-ning WANG ; Huai-jin LI ; Shan ZHU ; Hong ZHANG ; Yan-jun GONG ; Jie JIANG
Chinese Journal of Interventional Cardiology 2025;33(4):181-188
Objective To investigate the perioperative management of antithrombotic drugs in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.Methods Patients on long-term antithrombotic drugs who underwent non-cardiac surgery in our hospital were included.Through interviews with patients and physicians,perioperative antithrombotic medication regimens were reviewed and compared with the"Multidisciplinary Expert Consensus on Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy"to evaluate compliance with consensus and analyze influencing factors.Results A total of 372 patients were included in the analysis.Among them,355 patients were on long-term antiplatelet therapy alone,and 17 were on long-term oral anticoagulantion.364(97.8%)discontinued antithrombotic medications prior to surgery.109 patients(29.3%)received low molecular weight heparin(LMWH)bridging therapy.Among the 355 patients on antiplatelet therapy,108(30.4%)had discontinuation durations consistent with the consensus recommendations,while 186(52.4%)discontinued medications for longer periods.Postoperatively,the average hospital stay for antiplatelet therapy patients was 6.64 days,with only 37(10.4%)resuming therapy during hospitalization.The average hospital stay for patients on anticoagulants was 9.94 days,with only 2(11.8%)resuming therapy during hospitalization.Regarding perioperative risk assessment,only 40(10.8%)of patients underwent additional internal medical evaluation for thromboembolic risk after medication discontinuation,with the remainder assessed soly by surgeons.Coronary heart disease was an independent risk factor associated with internal medical evaluation(OR 2.851,95%CI 1.160-7.011,P=0.022).For bleeding risk assessment,surgeons evaluations aligned with the consensus in 68.0%of cases,but surgeons tended to underestimate risk compared to the consensus.Conclusions In this single-center study,perioperative antithrombotic management showed low compliance with expert consensus,characterized by prolonged preoperative medication discontinuation,high rates of LMWH bridging,and low postoperative in-hospital resumption of therapy.A robust multidisciplinary collaboration system should be established to enhance comprehensive patient assessment.
8.Association of Myo and Ret with cardiac function class in patients with chronic heart failure
Huai-chao LI ; Fang-fang CHANG ; Xiao-xiang LIU ; Huan-yun FANG
Chinese Journal of cardiovascular Rehabilitation Medicine 2025;34(4):451-455
Objective:To investigate the association of serum levels of myoglobin(Myo)and reticulocyte(Ret)with cardiac function class in patients with chronic heart failure(CHF).Methods:A total of 106 CHF patients treated in First Rongjun Special Care Hospital of Hebei Province between February 2020 and February 2024 were retrospec-tively selected as the observation group.According to New York Heart Association(NYHA)cardiac function class,patients were divided into class Ⅱ group(n=61)and class Ⅲ~Ⅳ group(n=45),and 107 healthy people with nor-mal physical examination results were selected from our hospital simultaneously as control group.The Myo and Ret levels were compared between control group and observation group,class Ⅱ group and class Ⅲ~Ⅳ group.Spearman correlation analysis was used to analyze the association of Myo and Ret levels with NYHA class in CHF patients.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was used to analyze the diagnostic value of Myo,Ret and their combined detection for NYHA class Ⅲ~Ⅳ in CHF patients.Results:Compared to participants in the control group,those in the observation group had significant higher Myo level[(50.42±9.98)μg/ml vs.(35.22±5.36)μg/ml]and significant lower Ret level[(2.24±0.68)%vs.(2.91±0.61)%](P<0.001 all).Compared to those in class Ⅱ group,those in class Ⅲ~Ⅳ group had significant higher Myo level[(60.77±5.94)μg/ml vs.(42.79±2.97)μg/ml]and significant lower Ret level[(1.73±0.31)%vs.(2.62±0.62)%](P<0.001 all).Spearman correlation analysis showed that Myo(r=0.654)was positively correlated with NYHA cardiac function class in CHF patients,while Ret(r=-0.589)was inversely correlated with it(P<0.001 all).ROC analysis showed that a combination of Myo and Ret had significant higher predictive efficacy(AUC=0.926,95%CI 0.858~0.968)for NYH A class Ⅲ~Ⅳ in CHF patients than Myo(AUC=0.804,95%CI 0.716~0.875)and Ret(AUC=0.701,95%CI 0.604~0.786)alone(Z=2.745,4.183,P<0.01 both).Conclusion:Our study showed that Myo and Ret levels were significantly correlated with NYHA class in CHF patients.Moreover,a combination of Myo and Ret levels showed better diagnostic value for NYHA class Ⅲ~Ⅳ in this population.
9.Risk prediction models for periprosthetic joint infection after total joint arthroplasty:a systematic evaluation
Jiao SHAN ; Wei HUAI ; Xiaoyuan BAO ; Meng JIN ; Yulong CAO ; Hong LI
Chinese Journal of Infection Control 2025;24(8):1066-1074
Objective To systematically evaluate the research progress of risk prediction models for periprosthetic joint infection(PJI)after total joint arthroplasty(TJA),analyze the limitations of current researches,and propose optimized suggestions.Methods Chinese and English databases such as PubMed,Embase,Web of Science,Co-chrane Library,SinoMed,Wanfang Database,VIP Database,and CNKI were retrieved systematically.The re-trieved period was from the establishment of each database to August 31,2024.Two researchers independently screened literatures and extracted data according to the CHARMS checklist,and the risk of bias in the included studies was evaluated by the PROBAST tool.Results A total of 14 studies were included in this study,involving 17 prediction models.The most common predictors included history of diabetes mellitus,obesity(body mass index[BMI]≥30 kg/m2),advanced age(≥65 years old),history of traumatic fracture,and prolonged operation time(≥2 hours).All of the included studies had high risks of bias,mainly study subject selection bias(such as single-center sample)and statistical analysis bias(such as unadjusted confounding factors).Conclusion Most of the cur-rently published risk prediction models for PJA after TJA have good predictive performance,however,there are sig-nificant limitations in the research design,especially in the insufficient control of bias risk.Future research needs to focus on improving methodological design,including adoption of prospective multi-center studies,definition of standardized predictive variables,and sufficient adjustment of confounding factors.
10.Explore the Application of Logistic Regression Model Based on Energy Spectral CT Parameters and Clinical Parameters Characteristics in the Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Pulmonary Ground Glass Nodules
Fei MA ; Qing-sheng SUN ; Zhi-chuan YE ; Huai LI
Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2025;25(13):2201-2207
Objective:To construct a Logistic regression model based on the energy spectral computed tomography(CT)parameters and clinical parameters characteristics,and to evaluate its diagnostic efficacy in the benign and malignant pulmonary ground glass nodules(GGN).Methods:162 GGN patients who were admitted to our hospital from April 2022 to March 2024 were selected,they were divided into benign group and malignant group according to pathological results.The difference of CT parameters[water content in normal scan period,water content in arterial period,slope of energy spectral curve in normal scan period and k value in arterial period]and clinical data between the two groups was compared.Multivariate Logistic regression model was used to analyze the independent influencing factors of malignant GGN.Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the model for malignant GGN.Results:Water content in normal scan period in malignant group was significantly higher than that in benign group(P<0.05).k value in normal scan period in the malignant group was significantly higher than that in the benign group(P<0.05).Water content in arterial period in malignant group was higher than that in benign group(P<0.05).k value in arterial period in the malignant group was higher than in benign group(P<0.05).There were significant differences in smoking history,family history of tumor and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)between benign group and malignant group(P<0.05).Multivariate Logistic regression model analysis showed that,water content in normal scan period,k value in normal scan period,k value in arterial period,water content in arterial period,smoking history and family history of tumor were independent influencing factors of malignant nodule in GGN patients(P<0.05).Based on the results of multi-factor Logistic regression analysis,the Logistic regression prediction model was constructed:logit(P)=ln(P/l-P)=0.015× water content in arterial period+1.214× smoking history+1.506× family history of tumor+0.013× water content in normal scan period 0.553× k value in normal scan period+0.202 × k value in arterial period.ROC curve results showed that the area under the curve(AUC)of the combined prediction model was 0.852,which was significantly higher than 0.654,0.607,0.628,0.759,0.707,0.682 of water content in normal scan period,k value in normal scan period,k value in arterial period,water content in arterial period,smoking history and family history of tumor.Conclusion:The Logistic regression model constructed based on the characteristics of energy spectral CT parameters and clinical parameters characteristics has good diagnostic efficacy for benign and malignant GGN.


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