OBJECTIVES: To compare perioperative and mid-term results of multiple versus single arterial off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG) in patients with impaired left ventricular function. METHODS: This study was conducted among 86 patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <50%, who underwent OPCABG at our hospital between January, 2018 and December, 2021. Of these patients, 22 underwent OPCABG with multiple arterial grafts (multiple graft group) and 64 received a single arterial graft in OPCABG (single graft group). The preoperative, intraoperative, and perioperative data were collected, and the patients were followed up for a mean of 29.28±14.84 months. The perioperative outcomes and follow-up results of the patients were compared, and the factors influencing major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) were identified using logistic regression. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to compare the postoperative survival rate without MACE. RESULTS: The patients in multiple graft group had a significantly younger age than those in single graft group (P<0.05), but the other baseline data were similar between the two groups (P>0.05). Perioperative mortality, 24-h postoperative drainage volume, length of ICU stay, intubation time, and the incidence of new-onset atrial fibrillation were all similar between the two groups (P>0.05), but the rate of postoperative hypotension was significantly higher in multiple graft group (34.78% vs 11.54%, P=0.009). No significant differences were found in the incidence of MACE or echocardiographic data during the follow-up. Logistic regression identified the female sex (OR: 0.191, 95% CI: 0.049-0.075) and creatinine level (OR: 1.016, 95% CI: 1.000-1.033) as factors affecting postoperative MACE occurrence. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed no significant difference in MACE-free survival rate between the two groups. CONCLUSIONS OPCABG with multiple arterial grafts does not increase severe perioperative complications or the risk of mid-term MACE in patients with impaired left ventricular function.
Humans ; Follow-Up Studies ; Postoperative Complications/epidemiology* ; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left/physiopathology* ; Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump/adverse effects* ; Male ; Female ; Ventricular Function, Left ; Middle Aged ; Risk Factors ; Aged ; Perioperative Period ; Stroke Volume

Obesity, as a chronic recurrent disease, has become a major public health challenge in China. To implement the requirements of the Healthy China Initiative (2019—2030), under domestic guidelines or consensus statements on overweight and obesity, and in alignment with the latest scientific advances globally, the Quality control protocol for adult overweight and obesity screening in health management (examination) institutions (2025 edition) was developed. This protocol was drafted by the Health Management Center of Shanghai Changzheng Hospital and formulated through multiple rounds of deliberation by experts in China’s health examination quality control field. The protocol establishes unified standards for screening facilities, personnel qualifications, and measurement or testing procedures. It defines specific screening items, outlines a standardized screening pathway, and sets requirements for the final medical review, ensuring the scientific validity, effectiveness, and safety of the screening process. The implementation of this protocol will enhance the consistency of weight management practices for adults across health examination institutions and strengthen the quality control of overweight and obesity screening programs.

Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of Huanglian Heye Formula(composed of Nelumbinis Folium,Coicis Semen,Atractylodis Rhizoma,Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma,Coptidis Rhizoma,Crataegi Fructus,and Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma)combined with insulin aspart in treating obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM)presenting damp-heat obstructing middle jiao syndrome.Methods A total of 94 obese T2DM patients with damp-heat obstructing middle jiao syndrome were treated at the Endocrinology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine from April 2022 to January 2024.The patients were randomly assigned to the control group and the observation group,with 47 patients in each group.The control group was treated with insulin aspart,and the observation group was treated with Huanglian Heye Formula plus insulin aspart,both groups were treated for 12 weeks.Changes in traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)syndrome scores,lipid metabolism parameters[total cholesterol(TC),triglycerides(TG),low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C)],obesity indicators[waist-to-hip ratio(WHR),body mass index(BMI),glucose metabolism markers[glycated hemoglobin(HbA1c),2-hour postprandial glucose(2hPG),fasting plasma glucose(FPG)],and serological indicators(visceral adipose tissue-derived serine protease inhibitor[VASPIN],homeostasis model assessment of[3-cell function(HOMA-β)]were observed before and after treatment.Clinical efficacy and safety were evaluated.Results(1)The observation group demonstrated significantly higher total efficacy[93.62％(44/47)]compared to the control group[78.72％(37/47);the intergroup comparison(by chi-square test)showed that the efficacy in the observation group was superior to the control group(P＜0.05).(2)Both groups showed reduced TCM syndrome scores(heaviness in head/body,epigastric fullness,sticky/foul-smelling stools,halitosis,dry/bitter mouth,heartburn/vomiting,yellowish urine,and emotional distress;all P＜0.05),with greater improvements in the observation group(P＜0.01).(3)Lipid profiles of TC,TG and LDL-C were improved in both groups(P＜0.05),with more significant reductions in the observation group(P＜0.01).(4)Obesity indicators(WHR,BMI)decreased in both groups(P＜0.05),showing superior reductions in the observation group(P＜0.05 or P＜0.01).(5)Glucose metabolism markers(HbA1c,2hPG,FPG)were significantly lowered in both groups(P＜0.05),with the observation group achieving better outcomes(P＜0.01).(6)Serological analysis revealed increased VASPIN and HOMA-[3 levels in both groups(P＜0.05),with more pronounced elevations in the observation group(P＜0.01).(7)No severe adverse events occurred.The incidence of adverse reactions was 8.51％(4/47)in the observation group versus 6.38％(3/47)in the control group(P＞0.05).Conclusion Huanglian Heye Formula combined with insulin aspart significantly improves clinical outcomes in obese T2DM patients with damp-heat obstructing middle jiao syndrome by protecting pancreatic[3-cell function,reducing body mass,ameliorating glucose/lipid metabolism,and modulating VASPIN expression,with demonstrated safety.

Objectives:To evaluate the effect of extended single prone positioning ventilation on survival and weaning rate of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients supported by VV-ECMO.Methods:ARDS patients supported by VV-ECMO admitted to Jinhua Central Hospital, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine and the First Hospital of Jiaxing from September 2014 to May 2025 were retrospectively enrolled into the study. The clinical data, ECMO and ventilator related parameters and outcomes of the patients were collected. The patients were divided into the extended prone positioning group and prone positioning group according to whether the duration of prone position ventilation was greater than 24 h. The clinical data of the two groups were compared to explore the effects on 30-day survival in-hospital survival and ECMO withdraw rate of these patients. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to explore the relationship between the duration of single prone position ventilation and the success of ECMO weaning, 30-day survival and hospital survival.Results:Total of 163 ARDS patients supported by VV-ECMO receiving prone positioning ventilation were included in study, 64 in extended prone positioning group and 72 in prone positioning group. The 30-day survival (54.7% vs. 52.8%) in-hospital survival (51.6% vs. 48.6%) and ECMO withdraw rate (57.8% vs. 61.1%) between the two groups were not statistically different ( P>0.05) as well as the duration of ECMO support [12(10,15)d vs. 11(10,13)d] the duration of ventilation [16(13,18)d vs. 16(12,18)d] the duration of ICU stay [26(15,32)d vs. 26(19,29)d] and the duration of hospital stay [32(15,42)d vs. 34(28,35)d]. Logistic regression analysis revealed that the duration of each prone position ventilation was not associated with successful weaning ( OR=0.979, 95% CI:0.952-1.006), 30-day survival ( OR=1.015, 95% CI: 0.975-1.056) and hospital survival ( OR=1.014, 95% CI: 0.974-1.055) even after adjusting for the severity of illness, age, and type of pneumonia. Conclusions:For ARDS patients supported by VV-ECMO, extended single prone positioning ventilation for more than 24 hours neither increase 30-day survival in-hospital survival and successful ECMO weaning rate, nor shorten ECMO support duration.

Humans ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/pathology* ; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell/pathology* ; Genetic Markers ; Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics* ; Urothelium/pathology*

Objective To explore the CT manifestations and clinical features of checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis(CIP).Methods Chest CT images and clinical data of 34 patients with CIP in Ningbo No.2 Hospitael were collected to retrospectively analysis.According to the site of tumor occurrence,22 patients were divided into lung cancer group and 12 patients in other malignant tumor group,and the differences in CT manifestations between two groups were compared.Results Cough(70.59％)and dyspnea(52.94％)were the common clinical symptoms.CIP occurred earlier and over a greater time span in lung cancer group 114.5(41.50,281.50)d than in other maligment tumor group 144(55.75,226.25)d.Eosinophil count was significantly higher only in other maligment tumor group(P=0.009).After hormonal therapy 18 patients improved,8 were stable and 8 progressed or even died.CT signs were prevalent in ground glass shadow(70.59％)and solid shadow(76.47％),and the imaging pattern was dominated by organic pneumonia pattern(47.6％),which was not related to type of primary tumor,and some of them could show nodular granulomatous reaction.Compared to lung cancer group,the other maligment tumor group was more likely to exhibit symmetrical infiltration(58.33％)distribution.Conclusion The clinical features of CIP are nonspecific,compared with other patients with primary malignancies,lung cancer patients are more likely to develop CIP,which is difficult to relieve after treatment,and are easy to develop severe disease.

Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy and hemorheological effects of traditional Chinese medicine injection combined with conventional Western medicine in the treatment of stable angina pectoris in coronarrt heartdisease using a mesh meta-analysis system.Methods Computer searches were conducted on China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),WanFang Data Knowledge Service Platform(WanFang Data),VIP,SinoMed,PubMed,Cochrane Library,Web of Science,and other clinical randomized controlled trials(RCTs)related to the combination of traditional Chinese medicine injection and conventional Western medicine for the treatment of stable angina pectoris in coronary heart disease.The search was conducted until April 2023.The Cochrane bias risk assessment tool was used to evaluate the quality of the included studies,and Stata13.0 software was used for meta-analysis.Results 57 RCTs were ultimately included,involving 5 types of traditional Chinese medicine injections.The results of the network meta-analysis showed that:① in terms of clinical total effective rate,the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injection was ranked in the following order:conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenmai injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Shenfu injection>Ciwujia injection>Huangqi injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;② In terms of the effective rate of angina symptoms,the order of efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injection is conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenxiong glucose injection>Ciwujia injection+conventional therapy>Huangqi injection>Shenfu injection>Shenmai injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;③ In terms of the effective rate of electrocardiogram,the order of efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injection is conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenmai injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Huangqi injection>Ciwujia injection>Shenfu injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;④ In terms of improving the high shear viscosity of whole blood,the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injection is ranked in the following order:conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenmai injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Shenfu injection>Huangqi injection>Ciwujia injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;⑤ In terms of improving whole blood low shear viscosity,the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injections is ranked in the following order:conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenfu injection>Shenmai injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Ciwujia injection>Huangqi injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;⑥ In terms of improving plasma viscosity,the order of efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine injection is conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Huangqi injection>Shenfu injection>Shenmai injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Ciwujia injection>conventional Western medicine treatment;⑦ In terms of improving fibrinogen,the efficacy ranking of traditional Chinese medicine injection is conventional Western medicine treatment combined with Shenfu injection>Shenxiong glucose injection>Shenmai injection>Ciwujia injection>conventional Western medicine treatment.Conclusion The combination of traditional Chinese medicine injection and conventional Western medicine treatment has a significant effect on stable angina pectoris in coronary heart disease.Among them,Shenmai Injection has the best therapeutic effect in terms of clinical total effective rate,electrocardiogram,and improvement of whole blood high shear viscosity;In terms of improving angina symptoms,Shenxiong Glucose Injection has the best effect;In terms of improving whole blood low shear viscosity and fibrinogen,Shenfu Injection has the best effect;In terms of improving plasma viscosity,Shenfu Injection has the best effect,but currently it is limited by the number and quality of studies included,and the above conclusions still need to be verified by more high-quality studies.

AIM:To predict the active compo-nents and targets of Piperlongum L.and the associ-ated signaling pathways involved in pulmonary fi-brosis using network pharmacology and molecular docking technique and evaluate the mechanism of Piperlongum L against pulmonary fibrosis by in vi-tro experiments.METHODS:The active ingredients and targets were retrieved from TCMSP,Swiss Tar-get Prediction and PubChem databases.The dis-ease-related targets were retrieved from Gene-Cards and OMIM databases.The intersection tar-gets of the drugs and disease-related targets were identified using jvenn online tool.String database was used to construct the"drug-component-tar-get"and PPI network and the networks were visual-ized using Cytoscape 3.9.1 software.GO and KEGG enrichment analysis were performed on the inter-section targets using the DAVID tool.The top 20 KEGG pathways,core targets and drug components were used to construct a"component-target-path-way"network and the network visualization was performed using Cytoscape 3.9.1 software.The in-teractions between drug compounds and the tar-gets were evaluated by molecular docking,and the docking results were visualized using Discovery stu-dio.HFL-1 cells were cultured and the effect of the drug compounds on cell viability was determined by MTT assay.The inhibition rate was then calculat-ed to determine the optimal drug concentration.HFL-1 cells were cultured in vitro and were as-signed into 4 groups:control group,TGF-β1 group,TGF-β1+LD group(LD group),TGF-β1+HD group(HD group).CCK-8 kit was used to evaluate the anti-proliferative activity of the drug compounds against HFL-1 cells at 24,48 and 72 h.Plate clone formation assay was performed to evaluate the ef-fect of drugs on the colony formation ability of HFL-1 cells.RT-qPCR and western blot were conducted to determine the effect of the compounds on the mRNA and protein expression levels of α-smooth muscle actin(α-SMA),collagen type Ⅰ(COI-Ⅰ),and collagen type Ⅲ(COI-Ⅲ)in each group.RESULTS:A total of 197 intersection targets of Piperlongum L and anti-pulmonary fibrosis were identified.The core PPI network comprised 29 nodes(targets)and 199 edges(interactions).GO functional analysis showed that the significantly enriched biological processes associated with the compounds in Piper-longum L included negative regulation of apopto-sis,signal transduction,and protein phosphoryla-tion.Significantly enriched cellular components in-cluded cytoplasm,nuclear cytoplasm,plasma mem-brane.Enriched molecular functions associated with the compounds included the same protein binding,serine/threonine/tyrosine kinase activity,and protein binding.A total of 155 significantly en-riched KEGG signaling pathways were identified,with PI3K-Akt signaling pathway was highly associ-ated with PF and was the fourth most enriched pathway.PIK3CA,MAPK3,MAPK1,MTOR,SRC,CCND1,EGFR,PRKCA,BCL2,and GSK3B had the highest connectivity in the components-target-pathway network.Piperlongine,N-(2,5-dimethoxy-phenyl)-4-methoxybenzamide,tetrahydrotanshi-none,pisigenin and piperine were the key com-pounds in Piperlongum L.The molecular docking results showed that all the compounds except N-(2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-4-methoxybenzamide had good binding activities with interactions observed with 10 proteins.The proliferation ability of the cells in the LD group was significantly lower than that of the TGF-β1 group at 48 h and 72 h(P＜0.05).The proliferation ability of cells HD group was sig-nificantly lower than the LD group at 24,48 and 72 h.The number of clones in each drug group was significantly reduced after treatment with the drugs(P＜0.05).The mRNA and protein expression levels of α-SMA,COI-Ⅰ,COI-Ⅲ in LD and HD groups were significantly lower than the expression levels in the TGF-β1 group.The protein expression levels of p-PI3K/PI3K and p-Akt/AKT were significantly lower in the two dose groups compared with the TGF-β1 group(P＜0.01).CONCLUSION:The results showed that the effect of Piperlongum L against PF is probably through modulation of the PI3K-Akt sig-naling pathway.

Objective To investigate the expression of serum CC chemokine ligand 2(CCL2),CX3C chemokine ligand 1(CX3CL1)and CXC chemokine ligand 10(CXCL10)in postmenopausal osteoporosis(PMOP)patients and the value of combination with fracture risk assessment tool(FRAX)in predicting fracture occurrence.Methods A total of 120 patients with PMOP admitted to Hainan West Central Hospital from January 2022 to June 2023 were selected,and they were divided into fracture group(n=52)and non-fracture group(n=68).According to the FRAX score examination,they were divided into a high-risk fracture group(n=73)and a low-risk fracture group(n=47).The levels of serum CCL2,CX3CL1 and CXCL10 in each group were compared.Multivariate Logistic regression was used to analyze the fracture risk factors in PMOP patients.ROC curve was drawn to analyze the value of CCL2,CX3CL1 and CXCL10 combined with FRAX score in predicting fracture of PMOP.Results The levels of serum CCL2(134.98±32.24 pg/ml),CX3CL1(186.25±41.60 pg/ml)and CXCL10(223.47±56.43 pg/ml)in the fracture group were higher than those in the non-fracture group(82.26±17.30 pg/ml,105.23±23.78 pg/ml,151.47±43.14 pg/ml),and the differences were statistically significant(t=11.503,13.452,7.923,all P＜0.001).The levels of serum CCL2(119.70±37.56 pg/ml),CX3CL1(161.43±53.79 pg/ml)and CXCL10(204.06±61.41pg/ml)in the high-risk group for fractures were higher than those in the low-risk group(82.43±17.23 pg/ml,107.55±24.75 pg/ml,149.45±42.50pg/ml),and the differences were statistically significant(t=6.377,6.436,5.327,all P＜0.001).Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that elevated levels of serum CCL2,CX3CL1 and CXCL10 were risk factors for fractures in PMOP patients.The ROC curve showed that the combination of CCL2,CX3CL1 and CXCL10 combined with FRAX scores predicted the highest AUC(95％CI)for PMOP fractures[0.951(0.892～0.993)],with sensitivity and specificity of 98.2％and 85.6％,respectively.Conclusion The increased levels of serum CCL2,CX3CL1 and CXCL10 are risk factors for fracture in PMOP patients,and the combination with FRAX score has a good predictive value for fracture.