OBJECTIVE: To explore the effectiveness of limb shortening/re-lengthening technique combined with in situ tissue regeneration technique in limb salvage for patients with complex lower limb fractures and soft tissue defects. METHODS: Between January 2021 and December 2024, 12 patients with complex lower limb fractures and soft tissue defects caused by trauma were admitted. There were 10 males and 2 females; the age ranged from 18 to 46 years, with an average of 36 years. Among them, 1 case of open comminuted tibiofibular fracture caused bone necrosis and soft tissue infection; 4 cases of open tibiofibular fractures developed bone and soft tissue infections after being fixed with a combined external fixator, resulting in defects; 7 cases of closed tibial fractures that underwent internal fixation developed soft tissue infections, leading to bone and soft tissue necrosis. The time from injury to the formation of bone and soft tissue defects was 2-9 weeks, with an average of 6 weeks. The length of bone defects was 5.0-10.2 cm, with an average of 6.8 cm; the area of soft tissue defects was 32-54 cm ², with an average of 43.9 cm ². After admission, all patients underwent thorough debridement. The limb shortening treatment was performed after the wound had filled with fresh granulation tissue, and an Ilizarov ring-shaped external fixator was placed or replaced. The limb was shortened at a rate of 1 mm/day to reduce bone defects. At the same time, the soft tissue defects were repaired using the in situ tissue regeneration technique. After the wound healed, osteotomy was performed, and limb lengthening was carried out at a rate of 1 mm/day. The lower limb full-length X-ray films were taken, and the lengthening was stopped when the lower limb alignment was restored. The healing condition of the wound was observed and the healing time was recorded. RESULTS: One patient died due to a traffic accident during limb lengthening. The remaining 11 patients completed limb shortening and re-lengthening treatment and were followed up 18-36 months, with an average of 20 months. All 11 patients successfully preserved their limbs. The wound healing time was 4-12 weeks, with an average of 8 weeks; the limb shortening time was 4-8 weeks, with an average of 6 weeks; and the limb lengthening time was 4-12 weeks, with an average of 8 weeks. One patient experienced delayed bone mineralization during bone lengthening, and one had pin tract infection. Both were treated symptomatically. The lower limb mechanical axis of all 11 patients was restored, and they were able to walk independently. CONCLUSION The application of limb shortening/re-lengthening technique combined with in situ tissue regeneration technique in the treatment of large bone and soft tissue defects not only effectively avoids the occurrence of nonunion at the apposition ends and increases the stability of the lower limb, but also significantly shortens the wound healing time, avoids the risk of soft tissue infection and increases the limb salvage rate. It can be used as a treatment technique for patients with complex lower limb fractures combined with soft tissue defects.
Humans ; Adult ; Male ; Female ; Middle Aged ; Soft Tissue Injuries/surgery* ; Limb Salvage/methods* ; Adolescent ; Young Adult ; Bone Lengthening/methods* ; External Fixators ; Lower Extremity/surgery* ; Fracture Fixation, Internal/methods* ; Fractures, Bone/surgery* ; Tibial Fractures/surgery* ; Treatment Outcome ; Regeneration

Paraplegia caused by spinal cord injury is a serious neurological complication, for which surgery is currently the main treatment method. Due to different surgical approaches, patients are usually expected to maintain a passive prone position for a long time or switch between the supine and prone positions. Affected by multiple factors such as neurogenic sensory disorders, pathological changes in muscle tone and operative duration, the risk of intraoperative acquired pressure injury (IAPI) is significantly increased. Current clinical prevention strategies for IAPI in these patients predominantly focus on localized pressure relief during positioning, lacking systematic, standardized comprehensive prevention protocols or evidence-based guidelines. To address it, Department of Nursing, Orthopedics Branch, China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care, Spinal Trauma Professional Committee, Orthopedics Branch, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Nursing Group of Spine and Spinal Cord Professional Committee of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine organized experts in relevant fields to formulate Guideline for the prevention of intraoperative acquired pressure injury in paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury ( version 2025), based on evidence-based medical evidence and latest research results and clinical practice at home and abroad. Eleven recommendations were put forward from the aspects of preoperative risk assessment, intraoperative prevention strategies, postoperative handover and monitoring, and supportive mechanisms for IAPI prevention, aiming to standardize the prevention measures and management strategies of IAPI in paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury and accelerate the recovery of patients and improve the therapeutic effect.

Objective:To analyze the epidemiological and clinical features of infectious diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).Methods:A cross-sectional study and analysis were conducted to summarize the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 9 918 patients with CNS infectious diseases, who were diagnosed and treated at 29 hospitals across China from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2020. Data collected included demographic data, clinical manifestations, health economic indicators, and prognostic outcomes.Results:Among the 9 918 collected cases of CNS infectious diseases, 5 559 were male (56.0%) and 4 359 were female (44.0%), with an onset age of 38 (25, 53) years. Education level: slightly more junior high school education (2 651 cases, 26.7%), and less elementary school education and below (2 181 cases, 22.0%) were found. Occupational distribution: farmers were found predominant (3 215 cases, 32.4%), followed by workers (1 826 cases, 18.4%) and students (1 633 cases, 16.5%). Clinical manifestations: headache (6 074 cases, 61.2%), fever (5 869 cases, 59.2%) and positive meningeal irritation signs (2 273 cases, 22.9%) were the 3 most common clinical manifestations, followed by nausea and (or) vomiting (2 095 cases, 21.1%), impaired consciousness (2 077 cases, 20.9%), psychiatric symptom (1 866 cases, 18.8%) and epilepsy (1 627 cases, 16.4%), etc., and cranial nerve involvement was found in 669 cases (6.7%). Major pathogens included viruses in 6 814 cases (68.7%), Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1 677 cases (16.9%), common bacteria in 864 cases (8.7%), fungi in 254 cases (2.6%), spirochetes of syphilis in 183 cases (1.8%), parasites in 121 cases (1.2%), and rickettsiae in 5 cases (0.1%). Urban-rural distribution: slightly more cases were found in the countryside (5 418 cases, 54.6%) than in the towns (4 500 cases, 45.4%). Distribution of onset by season: 2 412 cases (24.3%) fell ill in spring, 2 835 cases (28.6%) in summer, 2 187 cases (22.1%) in fall, and 2 484 cases (25.0%) in winter. Health economics: the duration of hospitalization was 15 (8, 27) days, and the cost of hospitalization was 1.53 (0.91, 3.02)×10 000 yuan. Prognosis: 9 531 cases (96.1%) were cured or improved, and 92 cases (0.9%) died. Conclusions:The pathogens responsible for CNS infectious diseases are predominantly viruses. Although the incidence is slightly higher during the summer months, the overall seasonal pattern is not particularly pronounced. These infections are more commonly observed in young and middle-aged males and present with a diverse range of clinical manifestations, contributing to a significant disease burden.

The research on medical image segmentation is of great significance in advancing efficient and accurate automated image processing techniques.To address the problem of inaccurate segmentation results caused by significant variations in organ tissue shapes and blurred boundaries present in medical images,a novel network named MFMANet is proposed.Built upon a"U"-shaped architecture,the network integrates multi-scale information fusion modules and multi-attention modules.Specifically,multi-scale information modules capture multi-scale information in the shallow layers of the network to bridge the semantic gap between encoder and decoder features,thereby enhancing the network's ability to handle large variations in organ sizes.Regarding the issue of blurred boundaries,multi-attention mechanism utilizes Swin Transformer as the deep encoder-decoder network,employing channel and spatial attention instead of traditional skip connections to achieve finer feature extraction.Experimental results on the ACDC and Synapse public datasets show that the proposed method achieves improvements of 1.51%and 1.29%in Dice similarity coefficient as compared with MTUNet,fully demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing segmentation network accuracy.

Objective:To systematically synthesize qualitative studies on healthcare professionals' experiences and needs regarding telemedicine services for diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), and to provide scientific evidence for further improvement of DFU telemedicine service systems.Methods:PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, ProQuest, PsycINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data, VIP, and China Biology Medicine disc were searched for qualitative studies on healthcare professionals' experiences and needs in the process of constructing and using DFU telemedicine service platforms. The time limit was from the inception of the databases to December 2024. The included literature was appraised according to the 2016 Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist for qualitative research, and the results were integrated and summarized using meta-aggregation.Results:A total of 10 studies were included, from which 30 findings were extracted, forming 11 categories, and were synthesized into four integrated findings: healthcare professionals held divergent attitudes toward DFU telemedicine services, perceived multiple benefits, faced many challenges, and had multidimensional needs.Conclusions:Telemedicine services have provided healthcare professionals with great convenience in managing DFU patients, but challenges still exist. In the future, relevant platforms and systems should be continuously improved by integrating the needs of healthcare professionals and patients, while service processes and management mechanisms should be enhanced to improve the quality of telemedicine services.

The research on medical image segmentation is of great significance in advancing efficient and accurate automated image processing techniques.To address the problem of inaccurate segmentation results caused by significant variations in organ tissue shapes and blurred boundaries present in medical images,a novel network named MFMANet is proposed.Built upon a"U"-shaped architecture,the network integrates multi-scale information fusion modules and multi-attention modules.Specifically,multi-scale information modules capture multi-scale information in the shallow layers of the network to bridge the semantic gap between encoder and decoder features,thereby enhancing the network's ability to handle large variations in organ sizes.Regarding the issue of blurred boundaries,multi-attention mechanism utilizes Swin Transformer as the deep encoder-decoder network,employing channel and spatial attention instead of traditional skip connections to achieve finer feature extraction.Experimental results on the ACDC and Synapse public datasets show that the proposed method achieves improvements of 1.51%and 1.29%in Dice similarity coefficient as compared with MTUNet,fully demonstrating its effectiveness in enhancing segmentation network accuracy.

Objective:To analyze the epidemiological and clinical features of infectious diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).Methods:A cross-sectional study and analysis were conducted to summarize the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 9 918 patients with CNS infectious diseases, who were diagnosed and treated at 29 hospitals across China from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2020. Data collected included demographic data, clinical manifestations, health economic indicators, and prognostic outcomes.Results:Among the 9 918 collected cases of CNS infectious diseases, 5 559 were male (56.0%) and 4 359 were female (44.0%), with an onset age of 38 (25, 53) years. Education level: slightly more junior high school education (2 651 cases, 26.7%), and less elementary school education and below (2 181 cases, 22.0%) were found. Occupational distribution: farmers were found predominant (3 215 cases, 32.4%), followed by workers (1 826 cases, 18.4%) and students (1 633 cases, 16.5%). Clinical manifestations: headache (6 074 cases, 61.2%), fever (5 869 cases, 59.2%) and positive meningeal irritation signs (2 273 cases, 22.9%) were the 3 most common clinical manifestations, followed by nausea and (or) vomiting (2 095 cases, 21.1%), impaired consciousness (2 077 cases, 20.9%), psychiatric symptom (1 866 cases, 18.8%) and epilepsy (1 627 cases, 16.4%), etc., and cranial nerve involvement was found in 669 cases (6.7%). Major pathogens included viruses in 6 814 cases (68.7%), Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1 677 cases (16.9%), common bacteria in 864 cases (8.7%), fungi in 254 cases (2.6%), spirochetes of syphilis in 183 cases (1.8%), parasites in 121 cases (1.2%), and rickettsiae in 5 cases (0.1%). Urban-rural distribution: slightly more cases were found in the countryside (5 418 cases, 54.6%) than in the towns (4 500 cases, 45.4%). Distribution of onset by season: 2 412 cases (24.3%) fell ill in spring, 2 835 cases (28.6%) in summer, 2 187 cases (22.1%) in fall, and 2 484 cases (25.0%) in winter. Health economics: the duration of hospitalization was 15 (8, 27) days, and the cost of hospitalization was 1.53 (0.91, 3.02)×10 000 yuan. Prognosis: 9 531 cases (96.1%) were cured or improved, and 92 cases (0.9%) died. Conclusions:The pathogens responsible for CNS infectious diseases are predominantly viruses. Although the incidence is slightly higher during the summer months, the overall seasonal pattern is not particularly pronounced. These infections are more commonly observed in young and middle-aged males and present with a diverse range of clinical manifestations, contributing to a significant disease burden.

Objective:To systematically synthesize qualitative studies on healthcare professionals' experiences and needs regarding telemedicine services for diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), and to provide scientific evidence for further improvement of DFU telemedicine service systems.Methods:PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Scopus, Embase, ProQuest, PsycINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data, VIP, and China Biology Medicine disc were searched for qualitative studies on healthcare professionals' experiences and needs in the process of constructing and using DFU telemedicine service platforms. The time limit was from the inception of the databases to December 2024. The included literature was appraised according to the 2016 Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist for qualitative research, and the results were integrated and summarized using meta-aggregation.Results:A total of 10 studies were included, from which 30 findings were extracted, forming 11 categories, and were synthesized into four integrated findings: healthcare professionals held divergent attitudes toward DFU telemedicine services, perceived multiple benefits, faced many challenges, and had multidimensional needs.Conclusions:Telemedicine services have provided healthcare professionals with great convenience in managing DFU patients, but challenges still exist. In the future, relevant platforms and systems should be continuously improved by integrating the needs of healthcare professionals and patients, while service processes and management mechanisms should be enhanced to improve the quality of telemedicine services.

Paraplegia caused by spinal cord injury is a serious neurological complication, for which surgery is currently the main treatment method. Due to different surgical approaches, patients are usually expected to maintain a passive prone position for a long time or switch between the supine and prone positions. Affected by multiple factors such as neurogenic sensory disorders, pathological changes in muscle tone and operative duration, the risk of intraoperative acquired pressure injury (IAPI) is significantly increased. Current clinical prevention strategies for IAPI in these patients predominantly focus on localized pressure relief during positioning, lacking systematic, standardized comprehensive prevention protocols or evidence-based guidelines. To address it, Department of Nursing, Orthopedics Branch, China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care, Spinal Trauma Professional Committee, Orthopedics Branch, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Nursing Group of Spine and Spinal Cord Professional Committee of Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine organized experts in relevant fields to formulate Guideline for the prevention of intraoperative acquired pressure injury in paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury ( version 2025), based on evidence-based medical evidence and latest research results and clinical practice at home and abroad. Eleven recommendations were put forward from the aspects of preoperative risk assessment, intraoperative prevention strategies, postoperative handover and monitoring, and supportive mechanisms for IAPI prevention, aiming to standardize the prevention measures and management strategies of IAPI in paraplegic patients with spinal cord injury and accelerate the recovery of patients and improve the therapeutic effect.

A U-Net incorporating improved Transformer and convolutional channel attention module is designed for biventricular segmentation in MRI image.By replacing the high-level convolution of U-Net with the improved Transformer,the global feature information can be effectively extracted to cope with the challenge of poor segmentation performance due to the complex morphological variation of the right ventricle.The improved Transformer incorporates a fixed window attention for position localization in the self-attention module,and aggregates the output feature map for reducing the feature map size;and the network learning capability is improved by increasing network depth through the adjustment of multilayer perceptron.To solve the problem of unsatisfactory segmentation performance caused by blurred tissue edges,a feature aggregation module is used for the fusion of multi-level underlying features,and a convolutional channel attention module is adopted to rescale the underlying features to achieve adaptive learning of feature weights.In addition,a plug-and-play feature enhancement module is integrated to improve the segmentation performance which is affected by feature loss due to channel decay in the codec structure,which guarantees the spatial information while increasing the proportion of useful channel information.The test on the ACDC dataset shows that the proposed method has higher biventricular segmentation accuracy,especially for the right ventricle segmentation.Compared with other methods,the proposed method improves the DSC coefficient by at least 2.83%,proving its effectiveness in biventricular segmentation.