Objective To investigate the effect of Gexia Zhuyu decoction combined with diosmin on coagulation mechanism in patients with great saphenous varicose vein surgery.Methods A total of 60 patients who received great saphenous varicose vein surgery in Shaoxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine from January 2019 to April 2022 were selected and divided into control group and observation group according to random number table method,with 30 patients in each group.Control group was treated with diosmin,and observation group was treated with diosmin + Gexia Zhuyu decoction.Coagulation indexes,vascular endothelial function and inflammatory factor levels were compared between two groups.Results After treatment,Krüppel-like factor 2,activated partial thromboplastin time,thrombin time,prothrombin time,nitric oxide,and interleukin(IL)-10 in observation group were significantly higher than those in control group,while plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1,von Willebrand factor,endothelin 1,hypersensitive C-reactive protein,IL-2 and IL-6 were significantly lower than those in control group(P<0.05).Conclusion Gexia Zhuyu decoction combined with diosmin can improve the hypercoagulable state and vascular endothelial function in patients with great saphenous varicose vein surgery,and reduce the level of inflammatory factors in the body,which is worth popularizing.

With the increasing proportion of human papilloma virus(HPV)infection in the pathogenic factors of oro-pharyngeal cancer,a series of changes have occurred in the surgical treatment.While the treatment mode has been im-proved,there are still many problems,including the inconsistency between diagnosis and treatment modes,the lack of popularization of reconstruction technology,the imperfect post-treatment rehabilitation system,and the lack of effective preventive measures.Especially in terms of treatment mode for early oropharyngeal cancer,there is no unified conclu-sion whether it is surgery alone or radiotherapy alone,and whether robotic minimally invasive surgery has better func-tional protection than radiotherapy.For advanced oropharyngeal cancer,there is greater controversy over the treatment mode.It is still unclear whether to adopt a non-surgical treatment mode of synchronous chemoradiotherapy or induction chemotherapy combined with synchronous chemoradiotherapy,or a treatment mode of surgery combined with postopera-tive chemoradiotherapy.In order to standardize the surgical treatment of oropharyngeal cancer in China and clarify the indications for surgical treatment of oropharyngeal cancer,this expert consensus,based on the characteristics and treat-ment status of oropharyngeal cancer in China and combined with the international latest theories and practices,forms consensus opinions in multiple aspects of preoperative evaluation,surgical indication determination,primary tumor re-section,neck lymph node dissection,postoperative defect repair,postoperative complication management prognosis and follow-up of oropharyngeal cancer patients.The key points include:① Before the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer,the expression of P16 protein should be detected to clarify HPV status;② Perform enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the maxillofacial region before surgery to evaluate the invasion of oropharyngeal cancer and guide precise surgical resec-tion of oropharyngeal cancer.Evaluating mouth opening and airway status is crucial for surgical approach decisions and postoperative risk prediction;③ For oropharyngeal cancer patients who have to undergo major surgery and cannot eat for one to two months,it is recommended to undergo percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy before surgery to effectively improve their nutritional intake during treatment;④ Early-stage oropharyngeal cancer patients may opt for either sur-gery alone or radiation therapy alone.For intermediate and advanced stages,HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer general-ly prioritizes radiation therapy,with concurrent chemotherapy considered based on tumor staging.Surgical treatment is recommended as the first choice for HPV unrelated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma(including primary and re-current)and recurrent HPV related oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma after radiotherapy and chemotherapy;⑤ For primary exogenous T1-2 oropharyngeal cancer,direct surgery through the oral approach or da Vinci robotic sur-gery is preferred.For T3-4 patients with advanced oropharyngeal cancer,it is recommended to use temporary mandibu-lectomy approach and lateral pharyngotomy approach for surgery as appropriate;⑥ For cT1-2N0 oropharyngeal cancer patients with tumor invasion depth＞3 mm and cT3-4N0 HPV unrelated oropharyngeal cancer patients,selective neck dissection of levels ⅠB to Ⅳ is recommended.For cN+HPV unrelated oropharyngeal cancer patients,therapeutic neck dissection in regions Ⅰ-Ⅴ is advised;⑦ If PET-CT scan at 12 or more weeks after completion of radiation shows intense FDG uptake in any node,or imaging suggests continuous enlargement of lymph nodes,the patient should undergo neck dissection;⑧ For patients with suspected extracapsular invasion preoperatively,lymph node dissection should include removal of surrounding muscle and adipose connective tissue;⑨ The reconstruction of oropharyngeal cancer defects should follow the principle of reconstruction steps,with priority given to adjacent flaps,followed by distal pedicled flaps,and finally free flaps.The anterolateral thigh flap with abundant tissue can be used as the preferred flap for large-scale postoperative defects.

The application of artificial neural network algorithm in pathological diagnosis of gastrointestinal malignant tumors has become a research hotspot. In the previous studies, the algorithm research mainly focused on the model development based on convolutional neural networks, while only a few studies used the combination of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. The research contents included classical histopathological diagnosis and molecular typing of malignant tumors, and the prediction of patient prognosis by utilizing artificial neural networks. This article reviews the research progress on artificial neural network algorithm in the pathological diagnosis and prognosis prediction of digestive tract malignant tumors.
Humans ; Neural Networks, Computer ; Algorithms ; Prognosis ; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/diagnosis*

Objective:To investigate the application of different imaging methods of 99Tc m-pyrophosphate (PYP) in the diagnosis and pathological classification of cardiac amyloidosis (CA). Methods:A total of 31 patients (22 males, 9 females, age 21-81(57.2±13.4) years) with suspected CA who underwent 99Tc m-PYP dual-phase scintigraphy (early-phase: 1 h, delay-phase: 2-3 h) and SPECT/CT (1 h) between December 2018 and December 2019 in Peking Union Medical College Hospital were retrospectively included. Taking clinical diagnosis as the standard, the results of visual score (≥2, positive) and semi-quantitative values (heart to contralateral lung (H/CL)≥1.5, positive) of 99Tc m-PYP uptake in dual-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging were analyzed. One-way analysis of variance and Bonferroni test were used to analyze the data. Results:Among 31 patients with suspected CA, 15 were clinically diagnosed as CA (5 patients with transthyretin-related CA (ATTR-CA) and 10 patients with light chain CA (AL-CA)) and 16 were diagnosed as non-CA. All 5 patients with ATTR-CA had positive dual-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging results. Three out of 10 patients with AL-CA had positive early-phase scintigraphy whereas negative delay-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging results. Sixteen patients who were clinically diagnosed as non-CA had negative dual-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging results. The sensitivity (5/5), specificity (10/10), positive predictive value (5/5), negative predictive value (10/10) and accuracy (15/15) of delay-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging were the same. Among 31 patients, 16 patients carried transthyretin-related (TTR) gene mutation, and 4 of them who clinically diagnosed as variant ATTR (ATTRv) had positive image findings while 12 of them who not clinically diagnosed as CA had negative image findings. There were significant differences in H/CL between ATTR-CA group and AL-CA group in early-phase (2.11±0.24 vs 1.31±0.07) and delay-phase (2.02±0.19 vs 1.30±0.05; F values: 75.41 and 87.15, Bonferroni test, both P<0.01). Conclusions:99Tc m-PYP delay-phase scintigraphy and SPECT/CT have high diagnostic efficiencies in ATTR-CA, helping to determine the pathological classification of CA; while early-phase scintigraphy has false positive results. Moreover, 99Tc m-PYP imaging is helpful to detect CA in patients with TTR gene mutation.

Transthyretin-related amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a disease caused by the depo-sition of insoluble amyloid fibers formed by the misfolding of transthyretin precursor protein in the intercellular space of cardiomyocytes. This lesion may lead to myocardial dysfunction, cogestive heart failure, and death.When diagnosed earlier, the patient can be treated with drugs as soon as possible to intervene in the progress of the disease, so as to effectively improve the patient's prognosis.^99mtechnetium-pyrophosphate (⁹⁹Tc^m-PYP)single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been widely used in the imaging examination of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) in recent years. While achieving early non-invasive diagnosis, accurate pathological classification can be obtained through Perugini visual score analysis, semi-quantitative analysis of heart to contralateral lung (H/CL) ratio, and SPECT image analysis. This article presents the application, methods, and the precautions of ⁹⁹Tc^m-PYPSPECT in the diagnosis of ATTR-CM, aiming to provide clinical reference for the application of this technology.

Objective:To evaluate the diagnostic value of 99Tc m-pyrophosphate (PYP) in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. Methods:From December 2018 to July 2019, 17 patients (9 males, 8 females, age: (53.4±13.0) years) with suspected cardiac amyloidosis underwent 99Tc m-PYP imaging in Peking Union Medical College Hospital were prospectively included. Visual score and semi-quantitative values (heart to contralateral ratio, H/CL) of 99Tc m-PYP uptake were used to diagnose transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). Biopsies and genetic measurements were also developed to evaluate the diagnostic value of the imaging. Results:Five of the 17 patients were diagnosed as ATTR with a visual score of 2-3, H/CL≥1.5, and confirmed with the biopsy or gene test. Four patients were diagnosed as ATTR with positive genetic results but no cardiac symptoms, and their visual scores were between 0 and 1 with H/CL<1.5. Considering the young age of the patients, amyloid deposition might have not yet caused visceral damage. Visual score of other 8 patients with negative 99Tc m-PYP imaging were also between 0 and 1 with H/CL<1.5, 2 of 8 were confirmed with light chain amyloidosis (AL) by biopsy, 3 were clinically diagnosed as AL and 3 were ATTR excluded. The accuracy of 99Tc m-PYP imaging for diagnosing ATTR was 11/11. Conclusion:99Tc m-PYP imaging is helpful for non-invasive diagnosis of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis.

Amyloidosis is a disease caused by abnormal deposition of amyloid protein, and the main types of amyloidosis involving myocardium are light chain amyloidosis (AL) and transthyretin-related amyloidosis (ATTR). Different types of myocardial amyloidosis have different prognosis and treatment methods. Therefore, early diagnosis and classification are particularly important. Nuclear medical imaging can diagnose and classify myocardial amyloidosis noninvasively. Radiotracers for bone scintigraphy has high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of ATTR, and have certain value for prognosis. Sympathetic innervation imaging tracers can detect cardiac sympathetic innervation, which may show myocardial involvement of amyloidosis earlier than bone scintigraphy. Amyloid protein specific imaging agent, which was first used in the diagnosis of amyloidosis in nervous system, has also yielded good results from preliminary studies in myocardial amyloidosis, and the diagnostic specificity in AL is slightly better than that in ATTR. This review introduces the application of nuclear medical imaging in myocardial amyloidosis.

Objective:Previous studies have shown an association between programmed death-ligand 1 expression(PD-L1)in non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)and clinical factors and that PD-L1 is positively correlated with TNM staging.This study aimed to explore the prognostic significance of PD-L1 and its correlation with the maximum standardized uptake value(SUVmax).Methods:Clinicopath-ological data and the follow-up information of the 122 de novo primary NSCLC patients were analyzed.PD-L1 expression was detected by immunohistochemistry in this 122 surgically resected non-small cell lung carcinoma tissues.Survival outcomes were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method and multivariate Cox proportional hazards model.Correlation between SUVmax and PD-L1 expression was analyzed using Spearman's rank correlation analysis.Results:Multivariate analysis revealed that PD-L1 expression(HR=4.518,95% CI:1.176-17.352,P=0.028)and tumor size(HR=1.404,95%CI:1.020-1.933,P=0.037)were independent risk factors for overall survival(OS) in early NSCLC patients.Sex,age,pathological type,CEA level,and SUVmax group had no obvious effect on OS(P 0.05)in early NSCLC patients.In univariate analyses,sex,pathological type,tumor size,and SUVmax group affected OS in stageⅢ-ⅣNSCLC patients.How-ever,age,CEA level,and PD-L1 expression had no effect on OS.PD-L1 expression was not an independent risk factor for OS in stageⅢ-ⅣNSCLC patients.The SUVmax group had no association with PD-L1 in all patients.Conclusions:PD-L1 expression is an independent risk factor for OS in early NSCLC patients but not in stageⅢ-Ⅳpatients.

OBJECTIVETo evaluate and compare the value of dynamic multiple pelvic angiography and pelvic four-contrast defecography in the diagnosis of functional defecation disorder.

METHODSFrom September 2014 to July 2015, a prospective controlled trial was carried out in Chengdu Anorectal Hospital. A total of 32 patients met the inclusion criteria of functional defecation disorder simultaneously underwent pelvic four-contrast defecography and dynamic multiple pelvic angiography. The diagnostic results of these two methods were compared.

RESULTSThe absolute values of anorectal angle and level of perineum, peritoneum and bladder from rest to defecation were (29.6±13.6)°, (26.2±14.2) mm, (55.5±25.6) mm and (28.9±16.5) mm in dynamic multiple pelvic angiography, and (24.6±5.8)° (18.7±10.6) mm, (34.5±18.4) mm and (19.2±11.8) mm in pelvic four-contrast defecography respectively, whose differences were statistically significant (P = 0.026, 0.022, 0.000, 0.011 respectively). The diagnostic rate of pelvic peritoneal hernia was 93.8%(30/32) and 68.8%(22/32) in dynamic multiple pelvic angiography and pelvic four-contrast defecography respectively with significant difference(P=0.011).

CONCLUSIONDynamic multiple pelvic angiography has significant advantage in the diagnosis of pelvic peritoneal hernia, and can provide a more objective basis for the diagnosis of functional defecation disorder.

Angiography ; methods ; Constipation ; diagnosis ; Defecation ; Defecography ; methods ; Humans ; Pelvis ; Perineum ; Prospective Studies

Objective To design a kind of special support mattress for the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), and to improve the comfort of the patients during the procedure, and evaluate the efficacy and safety during clinical application. Methods By 3D modeling, we designed a special memory foam mattress for ERCP. From January 2014 to September 2014, 424 patients who underwent ERCP treatment without general anesthesia and could take semi-prone position, were divided into special mattress group (210 cases) and ordinary mattress group (214 cases) according to the random number table method. The satisfaction of the patients and the operators of the two groups were evaluated and compared. Results The operation times of the two groups were (32.9±18.5) min and (33.2±20.1) min, respectively, and there was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). The overall satisfaction ratings of the patients in the two groups were (7.9±1.6) points and (6.3±1.3) points, respectively (P<0.01), and the discomfort ratings of the patients in the two groups were (1.3± 0.9) points and (3.8 ±1.2) points (t=116.45, 246.91, P<0.01). The operator satisfaction scores of two groups were (8.5±1.3) points and (8.5±1.8) points, respectively, and there was no significant difference (P>0.05). No mattress related complications were found. Conclusions The special memory foam mattress for ERCP can alleviate the discomfort and improve the tolerance during the procedure. Therefore, it is worth promoting the application.