Thermal ablation, an established minimally invasive technique, is increasingly utilized in treating thyroid nodules and microthyroid papillary carcinoma.Compared to conventional surgery, it offers advantages including minimal trauma, rapid recovery, and fewer complications.Recent technological advances have revealed its potential for managing primary hyperthyroidism. This review examines current evidence on thermal ablation applications in hyperthyroidism, analyzes its efficacy and safety, and discusses future challenges to inform clinical practice and research.

Thermal ablation, an established minimally invasive technique, is increasingly utilized in treating thyroid nodules and microthyroid papillary carcinoma.Compared to conventional surgery, it offers advantages including minimal trauma, rapid recovery, and fewer complications.Recent technological advances have revealed its potential for managing primary hyperthyroidism. This review examines current evidence on thermal ablation applications in hyperthyroidism, analyzes its efficacy and safety, and discusses future challenges to inform clinical practice and research.

The incidence rate of gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM)is increasing year by year,which seriously affects the prognosis and health of mothers and infants.Changes in gut microbiota can affect the occurrence and development of GDM.Maintaining the balance of gut microbiota is of great significance for the prevention and treatment of GDM.This article reviews the research progress on the relationship between gut microbiota and GDM.

Crohn′s disease (CD) with vascular disease is difficult to distinguish from simple vascular disease and easy to misdiagnose clinically. A case of CD with vascular disease misdiagnosed as fibromuscular dysplasia is reported to improve clinicians′ understanding of the two diseases.

Crohn′s disease (CD) with vascular disease is difficult to distinguish from simple vascular disease and easy to misdiagnose clinically. A case of CD with vascular disease misdiagnosed as fibromuscular dysplasia is reported to improve clinicians′ understanding of the two diseases.

The 81st annual scientific meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) was held online from June 25 to 29, 2021. The conference encompassed following theme areas: Acute and chronic complications of diabetes, behavioral medicine, clinical nutrition, education and exercise, clinical diabetes/therapeutics, epidemiology/genetics, immunology/transplantation, insulin action/molecular metabolism, integrated physiology/obesity and islet biology/insulin secretions, which covers both clinical and basic aspects of diabetes mellitus and other metabolic diseases. Here is the summary of the main points of academic progress in diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Objective To compare the accuracy rate of talar osteochondral lesions between the small field of view (FOV) surface coil MR imaging and 2D FSE proton density weighted imaging (2D-FSE-PD),3D-SPACE sequences MR imaging with boot-shaped coil.Methods Totally 43 patients (45 ankles) underwent 3D-SPACE sequence after 2D-FSE-PD sequence scanning using the boot-shaped coil,then the PDWI sequence was scanning after the boot-shaped coil was replaced by the small FOV surface coil at 1.5T MRI.The results of the arthroscopic examinations was regarded as the standard for assessing the accuracy rate of the three methods.Results The accuracy rate of 2D-FSE-PD sequence with small FOV surface coil was 86.67％ (39/45),the accuracy rate of 2D-FSE-PD sequence with boot coil was 60.00％ (27/45),the accuracy rate of 3D-SPACE sequence with boot coil was 68.89％ (31/45).The accuracy rate of small FOV surface coil was higher than those of boot coil used 3D-SPACE sequence (x2 =4.114,P =0.002) and boot coil used 2D-FSE-PD sequence (x2 =8.182,P＜0.001).There was not significant difference between 3D-SPACE sequence using boot coil and 2D-FSE-PD sequence using boot coil (x2 =0.776,P=0.125).Conclusion Compared with the 2D-FSE-PD and 3D-SPACE sequences with boot-shaped coil,the small surface coil scanning with routine sequence can show talar osteochondral lesions better.

Chronic inflammation,oxidative stress and retinal ganglion cell apoptosis play important roles in the development of diabetic retinopathy.Fenofibrate,a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α agonist,is used for dyslipidemia.In addition to its lipid-modulating effects,fenofibrate also has antiinflammatory,antioxidant,anti-apoptotic and anti-angiogenesis properties that may be useful to delay the progression of diabetic retinopathy.Some clinical studies have already confirmed that fenofibrate has therapeutic effect on diabetic retinopathy.Further studies the application of fenofibrate in the treatment of diabetic microangiopathy to clarify the safety and efficacy of fenofibrate is of great significance.

Objective To investigate the effect of baseline Left-ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) on the cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Methods A retrospective analysis of patients with heart failure was performed. Fifty-four patients [aged (59.73 ± 11.61)years, 31 males, 23 females] who underwent CRT/CRTD were divided into 2 groups according to LVEF ( group A, LVEF≤ 35%; group B, LVEF > 35% ). NYHA class, LVEF,CRT respond rates and medical adverse event (MAE) due to worsening heart failure were detected at 3 and 12 months post-surgery. Results The score of NYHA class changing wasn′t different between these two group. Compared to group B, LVEF was markedly increased (5.08 ± 2.81)% vs (2.45 ± 1.80)%, P < 0.05;(5.38 ± 2.92)% vs (2.39 ± 3.53)%, P < 0.05)at 3 and 12 months post-surgery. Similarly, group A owned high CRT response rates(66.1% vs 33.9%, P < 0.05; 81.25% vs 47.83%, P < 0.05) at the both two time points. At 12 months post-surgery , LVED decreased and the MAE was similar in all groups. Conclusion Patients with EF≤ 35% have more increases in LVEF and own high CRT response rates post-CRT.

Objective To investigate influencing factors of perioperative myocardial injury in patients undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods Ninty one patients with coronary heart disease (including stable angina and unstable angina) underwent PCI, the perioperative myocardial injury incidence were observed prospectively by monitoring the preoperative and postoperative high sensitivity troponin protein levels to investigate the influencing factors of perioperative myocardial injury by Logistic regression analysis. Results There were no statistically significance in perioperative myocardial injury incidence (62.5%vs 68.7%, P=0.618) and perioperative myocardial infarction incidence (29.2%vs 20.9%, P=0.411) between stable angina and unstable angina groups . These factors of perioperative myocardial injury in patients undergone PCI by Logistic regression analysis were analysed, and we found that the influencing factors were the application loading dose rosuvastatin before PCI, preoperative statin therapy more than one month, apolipoprotein A levels and total stent length. Conclusion Application loading dose of rosuvastatin before PCI, preoperative statin therapy more than one month, apolipoprotein A levels are related to perioperative myocardial injury reduction, whereas the total length of the stent is associated with an increased occurrence of perioperative myocardial injury.