[Objective] To explore the effectiveness of applying the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle to enhance the compatibility rate of five Rh blood group antigen phenotypes between donors and recipients across multiple hospital campuses. [Methods] Clinical blood transfusion data from May to July 2022 were selected. Specific improvement measures were formulated based on the survey results, and the PDCA cycle management model was implemented from August 2022. The post-intervention phase spanned from August 2022 to October 2023. The Rh phenotype compatibility rate, the detection rate of Rh system antibodies, and the proportion of Rh system antibodies among unexpected antibodies were compared between the pre-intervention phase (May to July 2022) and the post-intervention phase. [Results] After the continuous improvement with the PDCA cycle, the compatibility rate for the five Rh blood group antigen phenotypes between donors and recipients from August to October 2023 reached 81.90%, significantly higher than the 70.54% recorded during the pre-intervention phase (May to July 2022, P<0.01), and displayed a quarterly upward trend (β=0.028, P<0.05). The detection rate of Rh blood group system antibodies (β=-9.839×10^-5, P<0.05) and its proportion among all detected antibodies (β=-0.022, P<0.05) showed a quarterly decreasing trend, both demonstrating a negative correlation with the enhanced compatibility rate (r values of -0.981 and -0.911, respectively; P<0.05). [Conclusion] The implementation of targeted measures through the PDCA cycle can effectively increase the compatibility rate of five Rh blood group antigen phenotypes between donors and recipients, reduce the occurrence of unexpected Rh blood group antibodies, thereby lowering the risk of transfusion and enhancing the quality and safety of medical care.

Objective:To investigate the views of doctors on the incidence and treatment tactics of mild progression after epithelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor(EGFR-TKI)treatment in lung adenocarcinoma and provide suggestions to optimize the counter-measure strategies.Methods:Convenience sampling was used to conduct an online questionnaire survey for doctors specializing in onco-logy and respiratory diseases.Results:584 valid questionnaires were collected,and all the doctors expressed concerns regarding mild tumor progression after EGFR-TKI treatment.The coping strategies included maintaining the original TKI treatment,adding other treatments to the original TKI,changing the regimen,and performing secondary tissue biopsy,among which,most doctors chose to add other treatments to the original TKI.Conclusions:Doctors have noticed the enlargement of target lesions in still stable disease(SD)and most frequently chose to add other treatments to the original TKI as a coping strategy.This finding can provide a reference for framing future guidelines for large sample prospective clinical studies that are needed to find the most effective synergistic treatment options.

Objective:To review and summarize the experience of robot-assisted laparoscopic trans-plant nephrectomy,share the surgical steps and technical key points,and provide a reference for clinical practice.Methods:A retrospective analysis was conducted on the perioperative data of 5 patients who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy at Peking University Third Hospital from August 2023 to December 2024.The surgical steps and key points were summarized.The continuous variables were described by medians(ranges).Results:A total of 5 patients were included in the analysis,of whom 2 were male and 3 were female.The median age of the patients was 37(31-68)years.The me-dian time from kidney transplantation to donor nephrectomy was 10(3-22)years.The indications for donor nephrectomy included recurrent hematuria,abdominal pain,malignant tumor of the transplanted kidney,and recurrent infection with hydronephrosis of the transplanted kidney.The excised transplanted kidneys from all the 5 patients had a single renal artery and a single renal vein.The median operation time was 212(145-351)min,the median blood loss was 300(20-500)mL,and the median post-operative hospital stay was 7(4-25)days.Only 1 patient experienced intraoperative complications,who experienced an external iliac artery injury during the operation and underwent suture repair.No pa-tient died during the perioperative period.Postoperative pathological results showed that 3 patients had end-stage non-functional kidneys,1 patient had BK virus-associated urothelial carcinoma,and 1 patient had chronic pyelonephritis with renal parenchymal atrophy.Conclusion:Robot-assisted laparoscopic transplant nephrectomy as a new surgical approach is feasible and safe.Compared with traditional open transplant nephrectomy,its advantage lies in the ability to directly observe and prioritize the management of the renal pedicle of the transplanted kidney,while completely freeing and removing the transplanted kidney outside the renal capsule.With the continuous accumulation of experience,this surgical technique is expected to become a powerful alternative to traditional open transplant nephrectomy.

Objective:To investigate the views of doctors on the incidence and treatment tactics of mild progression after epithelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor(EGFR-TKI)treatment in lung adenocarcinoma and provide suggestions to optimize the counter-measure strategies.Methods:Convenience sampling was used to conduct an online questionnaire survey for doctors specializing in onco-logy and respiratory diseases.Results:584 valid questionnaires were collected,and all the doctors expressed concerns regarding mild tumor progression after EGFR-TKI treatment.The coping strategies included maintaining the original TKI treatment,adding other treatments to the original TKI,changing the regimen,and performing secondary tissue biopsy,among which,most doctors chose to add other treatments to the original TKI.Conclusions:Doctors have noticed the enlargement of target lesions in still stable disease(SD)and most frequently chose to add other treatments to the original TKI as a coping strategy.This finding can provide a reference for framing future guidelines for large sample prospective clinical studies that are needed to find the most effective synergistic treatment options.

Objective:To review and summarize the experience of robot-assisted laparoscopic trans-plant nephrectomy,share the surgical steps and technical key points,and provide a reference for clinical practice.Methods:A retrospective analysis was conducted on the perioperative data of 5 patients who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy at Peking University Third Hospital from August 2023 to December 2024.The surgical steps and key points were summarized.The continuous variables were described by medians(ranges).Results:A total of 5 patients were included in the analysis,of whom 2 were male and 3 were female.The median age of the patients was 37(31-68)years.The me-dian time from kidney transplantation to donor nephrectomy was 10(3-22)years.The indications for donor nephrectomy included recurrent hematuria,abdominal pain,malignant tumor of the transplanted kidney,and recurrent infection with hydronephrosis of the transplanted kidney.The excised transplanted kidneys from all the 5 patients had a single renal artery and a single renal vein.The median operation time was 212(145-351)min,the median blood loss was 300(20-500)mL,and the median post-operative hospital stay was 7(4-25)days.Only 1 patient experienced intraoperative complications,who experienced an external iliac artery injury during the operation and underwent suture repair.No pa-tient died during the perioperative period.Postoperative pathological results showed that 3 patients had end-stage non-functional kidneys,1 patient had BK virus-associated urothelial carcinoma,and 1 patient had chronic pyelonephritis with renal parenchymal atrophy.Conclusion:Robot-assisted laparoscopic transplant nephrectomy as a new surgical approach is feasible and safe.Compared with traditional open transplant nephrectomy,its advantage lies in the ability to directly observe and prioritize the management of the renal pedicle of the transplanted kidney,while completely freeing and removing the transplanted kidney outside the renal capsule.With the continuous accumulation of experience,this surgical technique is expected to become a powerful alternative to traditional open transplant nephrectomy.

Objective:To investigate the role of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 (IGFBP5) in cardiac remodeling following acute myocardial infarction (AMI).Methods:In vivo experiments, a mouse model of AMI was established and randomly divided into three groups: sham-operation group, early AMI group (day 3), and late AMI group (day 28). Western blotting was used to detect the expression of fibrosis-related proteins and IGFBP5 in myocardial tissue. Immunofluorescence staining was performed to assess changes in IGFBP5 expression in the infarcted area at days 3 and 28. Serum IGFBP5 levels were measured using ELISA. In vivo experiments, IGFBP5 expression was silenced in mouse cardiac fibroblasts using siRNA, and the effect on transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation was evaluated. One-way ANOVA was used for statistical comparisons among multiple groups.Results:On day 28 after AMI, IGFBP5 expression in myocardial tissue and serum was significantly elevated and positively correlated with the expression of fibrosis markers, including Fibronectin, Periostin, and α-SMA ( P<0.01). Both mouse serum analysis and immunofluorescence staining of heart tissue sections showed that the expression level of IGFBP5 was significantly increased in the late stage of AMI compared to baseline( P<0.001), indicating its potential as a prognostic marker for myocardial infarctionIn vitro, silencing IGFBP5 expression inhibited TGF β-induced fibroblast transdifferentiation and reduced the expression of fibrosis-related proteins ( P<0.05). Conclusion:IGFBP5 may play a role in the progression of AMI and serve as both a potential therapeutic target and a prognostic biomarker.

This study was designed to investigate the potential protective effect of isopimpinelline against para-chlorophenylalanine(PCPA)-induced pineal gland damage in rats.Forty male Sprague-Dawley(SD)rats were divided into four groups(n=10 each):a normal group,a model group,a melatonin-treated group(10 mg/kg),and an isopimpinelline-treated group(1.5 mg/kg).All groups,except for the normal,received intraperitoneal injection of PCPA(450 mg/kg)to induce pineal gland damage.Subsequent treatments were administered orally for 7 days.Sleep latency and duration were evaluated on the sixth day using the pentobarbital sodium sleep synergy test.After the treatment period,serum melatonin levels and pineal gland inflammation markers were assessed alongside oxidative and antioxidative parameters.Histological examinations of the pineal gland were conducted,and the expression of proteins related to the Nrf2 and NF-κB signaling pathways were quantified.Data showed that isopimpinelline alleviates the structural damage in the pineal gland of model rats,significantly elevated serum melatonin levels,and markedly improved sleep latency and duration(P＜0.05).Isopimpinelline activated the Nrf2 signaling pathway by inhibiting Keap1 expression,which facilitated the nuclear translocation of Nrf2 and upregulated the antioxidant proteins NQO1 and HO-1,thereby mitigating oxidative stress in the pineal gland(P＜0.05).Furthermore,isopimpinelline significantly reduced the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-2,TNF-α and IL-6.Isopimpinelline also suppressed the NF-κB signaling pathway,reducing the expression of NF-κB p65,IKKβ,and p-IKKβ proteins,as well as the nuclear translocation of NF-κB p65(P＜0.05),thereby providing anti-inflammatory benefits.In conclusion,isopimpinelline could protect pineal gland from damage by activating the Nrf2 signaling pathway and inhibiting the NF-κB pathway.

Objective To investigate the clinical value of uric acid(UA)to albumin(Alb)ratio(UAR)in predicting the prognosis of the patients with heart failure.Methods A total of 1 893 patients with heart failure and complete clinical data in the Chinese Heart Failure Database were selected as the clinical research subjects for conducting the retrospective cohort analysis.The general clinical data,coagulation routine,tropo-nin Ⅰ(cTnⅠ),cardiac enzyme profile,liver function,B-type brain natriuretic peptide(BNP),uric acid(UA)and left ventricular ejection fraction in echocardiography in the study subjects were collected to calculate UAR.Ac-cording to the receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve,the optimal cut-off value of UAR was selected as 17.48.Then the subjects were divided into the low UAR group(UAR＜17.48,n=1 525)and high UAR group(UAR≥17.48,n=368).The clinical data were compared between the two groups,and the effect of UAR on the all-cause mortality in the patients with heart failure was evaluated by the binary logistic regres-sion analysis.Results The follow up time in the patients was 90 d,and 37 cases(2.0％)of all-cause death oc-curred during the follow up period.The proportion of males,proportion of cardiac function grade Ⅳ,propor-tion of myocardial infarction,levels of uric acid,D-dimer,creatine kinase(CK),creatine kinase isoenzyme(CK-MB),lactate dehydrogenase(LDH),alanine aminotransferase(ALT),glutamyl transpeptidase(GGT),alkaline phosphatase(AKP)and BNP in the high UAR group were higher than those in the low UAR group,while the pulse,systolic pressure,diastolic pressure,proportions of heart function grade Ⅱ and grade Ⅲ and ALB level were lower than those in the UAR group,and the differences were statistically significant(P＜0.05).The ROC curve analysis results showed that the area under the curve of UAR for assessing the all-cause death occurrence in heart failure was 0.715(95％CI:0.626-0.804,P＜0.001),the sensitivity was 56.8％and the specificity was 81.4％;the binary logistic regression analysis results showed that the incidence rate of all-cause mortality in the high UAR group was 1.09 times higher than that in the low UAR group(OR=1.09,95％CI:1.02-1.20,P=0.017).Conclusion UAR could serve as an independent predictive fac-tor of all-cause death occurrence in heart failure,which needs clinic to pay attention.

Objective To investigate the role of PSMA4 in the prognosis,diagnosis and immune infiltration of lung adenocarcinoma(LUAD),and explore its underlying mechanism.Methods The expression profiles and clinical data of LUAD patients were sourced from the Cancer Genome Atlas(TCGA)database.The expression level of PSMA4 in LUAD tissues(n=539)and normal tissues(n=59)were compared using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.The expression levels of PSMA4 in LUAD tissues and normal tissues were validated by analyzing the GSE40791 and GSE10072 LUAD datasets obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus(GEO)database.In addition,tumor and adjacent non-cancerous tissues were collected from 10 LU AD undergoing lung biopsy by fiberoptic bronchoscopy in Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University from January to December 2023.The PSMA4 expression in above samples was further verified using RT-qPCR.RT-qPCR was performed to detect the expression of PSMA4 in lung cancer cells and normal lung epithelial cells.Functional enrichment analysis and immune cell infiltration analysis were conducted on the cells with high and low expression of PSMA4.Cox regression analysis and Kaplan-Meier(KM)survival analysis were used to determine the diagnostic and prognostic value of PSMA4 for LUAD,and a nomogram was constructed to predict the overall survival rate at different time points.Results The analysis of TCGA datasets,GSE40791,and GSE10072 LUAD data revealed that PSMA4 expression was significantly higher in LUAD tissues than in normal tissues(P＜0.01).RT-qPCR further confirmed that the expression of PSMA4 was obviously elevated in LUAD tissues and lung cancer cells than adjacent non-cancerous tissues and normal lung epithelial cells(P＜0.01).High PSMA4 expression could be regarded as a marker for LUAD diagnosis and poor prognosis,and was associated with reduced proportions of Tem cells,TFH cells,B cells,NK cells,Tcm cells,and mast cells in the tumor microenvironment.Conclusion PSMA4 presents significant diagnostic performance for LUAD,and is closely associated with the prognosis and immune infiltration of this malignancy.

Objective:To preliminarily investigate the applicability of a poliovirus pseudovirus-based neutralization assay in evaluating the immunogenicity of recombinant poliovirus vaccines and their in vivo potency in rats. Methods:Serum samples from rats immunized with recombinant poliovirus vaccines were tested using both the pseudovirus neutralization assay and the live-virus neutralization assay with Sabin strain. The consistency and correlation of the two methods were analyzed using the Kappa test and Spearman′s rank correlation.Results:For the neutralizing antibodies against typeⅠ, Ⅱ, and Ⅲ polioviruses, the Kappa values for consistency analysis of the two methods were 0.914, 1.000, and 0.751, respectively ( P<0.001), and the correlation coefficients ( R values) were 0.833, 0.927, and 0.859, respectively ( P<0.001). Conclusions:The test results of the two methods are consistent and show a good correlation, indicating that the pseudovirus neutralization assay can be applied to evaluating the immunogenicity of poliovirus vaccines and also can be used in rat potency tests.