Objective:To evaluate the efficacy of 3D printing technology combined with computer navigation-assisted screw implantation in the treatment of atlantoaxial instability (AAI) complicated by vertebral artery anomalies.Methods:A retrospective case series study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 23 patients with AAI complicated by vertebral artery anomalies who were admitted to Honghui Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University between January 2019 and January 2023, including 10 males and 13 females, aged 19-70 years [(51.0±13.3)years]. Vertebral artery anomalies were categorized into unilateral high-riding vertebral artery with unilateral dominance ( n=14), bilateral high-riding vertebral arteries with unilateral dominance ( n=6), and ponticulus posticus ( n=3). All the patients underwent preoperative planning using a 3D-printed model of the atlantoaxial complex with the vertebral artery, followed by posterior atlantoaxial pedicle screw fixation with computer-assisted navigation. Operative duration and intraoperative blood loss were recorded. The accuracy of pedicle screw placement was assessed at 3 days postoperatively using the Gertzbein-Robbins classification. Visual analogue scale (VAS) scores and Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) scores were evaluated preoperatively, at 3 days, 3 months postoperatively, and at the last follow-up. Bony fusion was assessed using cervical CT with 3D reconstruction at the last follow-up. Complications were also observed. Results:All the patients were followed up for 12-19 months [(15.1±1.9)months]. The operative duration was 125-167 minutes [(140.6±10.9)minutes] and intraoperative blood loss was 200-600 ml [(295.7±77.8)ml]. At 3 days postoperatively, all the 66 pedicle screws were safely placed, with 60 screws (91%) rated as Gertzbein-Robbins Grade 0 and 6 screws (9%) as Grade 1. At 3 days and 3 months postoperatively, and at the last follow-up, the VAS scores were (4.0±1.0)points, (2.0±0.6)points, and (1.3±0.5)points, and the JOA scores were (14.2±1.2)points, (16.0±0.8)points, and (16.6±0.5)points, both of which were not only significantly improved compared with preoperative (5.6±1.3)points and (12.8±1.5)points, but also further improved over time ( P<0.05). At the last follow-up, 22 patients (96%) achieved satisfactory atlantoaxial bony fusion. No vertebral artery injury, spinal cord or nerve injury, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, or screw loosening were observed in any patients. Conclusion:For patients with AAI complicated by vertebral artery anomalies, 3D printing combined with computer navigation-assisted navigation for atlantoaxial pedicle screw implantation offers multiple advantages, including minimal surgical trauma, high screw placement accuracy, pain relief, neurological function improvement, high fusion rate, and lowered incidence of complications.

Objective:To compare the efficacy of robot system-assisted versus freehand screw revision for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with lower cervical fractures.Methods:A multicenter retrospective cohort study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 57 patients with AS combined with lower cervical fractures admitted to Honghui Hospital Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou Orthopedic Hospital, and Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, including 46 males and 11 females, aged 38-77 years [(65.4±9.5)years]. Injury segments involved C 3 in 7 patients, C 4 in 13, C 5 in 25, C 6 in 10, and C 7 in 2. All the patients underwent revision surgery, among whom, 22 patients were treated with robot system-assisted cervical pedicle screw placement (robot nailing group, with 190 screws), and 35 with freehand cervical pedicle screw placement (freehand nailing group, with 300 screws). The operative duration, intraoperative bleeding volume, frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy, incision length, and length of hospital stay of the two groups were compared; the time of single nscrew insertion, the number of single nail revisions, the distance between screws and the anterior cortex, the accuracy of screw placement of grade 0 and grade 0+1 were recorded in the two groups. The visual analogue scale (VAS), Japanese Orthopedic Society (JOA) score, neck dysfunction index (NDI), American Spine Injury Association (ASIA) classification before operation, at 3 days, 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up were compared between the two groups. The complication rate was also noted. Results:All the patients were followed up for 12-16 months [(14.3±2.1)months]. The operative duration, intraoperative bleeding volume, and frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy were (186.4±12.9)minutes, (486.1±68.6)ml, and (3.4±1.3)times in the robot nailing group, which were shorter or less than (206.7±14.4)minutes, (660.3±45.2)ml, and (13.5±3.6)times in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The incision length was (9.4±2.4)cm in the robot nailing group, longer than (5.6±1.2)cm in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01), and the length of hospital stay was (3.7±0.4)days, shorter than (4.4±1.4)days in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The length of single nail insertion, the number of single nail revision, and the distance between the screws and the front cortex were (6.5±0.4)minutes, (1.1±0.1)times, and (3.5±1.3)mm in the robot nailing group, which were shorter or less than (11.6±0.2)minutes, (1.5±0.2)times, and (12.4±4.7)mm in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The accuracy of the screw placement in the robot nailing group was 90.0% (171/190) and 95.8% (182/190) with level 0 and 0+1 screws, better than 80.0% (240/300) and 89.0% (267/300) in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.05). There was no significant difference in VAS, JOA score, NDI, or ASIA grading between the two groups before operation ( P>0.05). The VAS, JOA, and NDI scores at 3 days after operation were (3.1±0.6)points, (12.1±1.2)points, and (15.6±2.9)points, respectively in the robot nailing group, which were better than (5.0±1.4)points, (11.3±1.1)points and (22.5±3.7)points, respectively in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.05). No statistically significant difference was observed in the ASIA grade between the two groups at 3 days after operation ( P>0.05). There were no significant differences in VAS, JOA, NDI scores, or ASIA grading between the two groups at 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up ( P>0.05). Compared with those before operation, the VAS, JOA, NDI scores, and ASIA grading were significantly improved at 3 days, 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up in the two groups, which were further improved with the passage of time. Two patients in the robot nailing group had pneumonia, with a complication rate of 9% (2/22), while 2 patients in the freehand nailing group had dural sac rupture and cerebrospinal fluid leakage and 3 had lung infection after operation, with a complication rate of 14% (5/35) ( P<0.05). Conclusion:Compared with freehand nailing, the robot system-assisted nailing revision for AS with lower cervical fracture has more advantages in terms of the operative duration, length of hospital stay, intraoperative bleeding volume, frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy nailing speed and accuracy, screw holding force, early pain relief, function restoration, and complication rate, despite longer surgical incision.

BACKGROUND: Over 20 million colonoscopies are performed in China annually. An automatic clinical decision support system (CDSS) with accurate semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports and guideline-based is helpful to relieve the increasing medical burden and standardize the healthcare. In this study, the CDSS was built under a hierarchical-label interpretable classification framework, trained by a state-of-the-art transformer-based model, and validated in a multi-center style. METHODS: We conducted stratified sampling on a previously established dataset containing 302,965 electronic colonoscopy reports with pathology, identified 2041 patients' records representative of overall features, and randomly divided into the training and testing sets (7:3). A total of five main labels and 22 sublabels were applied to annotate each record on a network platform, and the data were trained respectively by three pre-training models on Chinese corpus website, including bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT)-base-Chinese (BC), the BERT-wwm-ext-Chinese (BWEC), and ernie-3.0-base-zh (E3BZ). The performance of trained models was subsequently compared with a randomly initialized model, and the preferred model was selected. Model fine-tuning was applied to further enhance the capacity. The system was validated in five other hospitals with 3177 consecutive colonoscopy cases. RESULTS: The E3BZ pre-trained model exhibited the best performance, with a 90.18% accuracy and a 69.14% Macro-F1 score overall. The model achieved 100% accuracy in identifying cancer cases and 99.16% for normal cases. In external validation, the model exhibited favorable consistency and good performance among five hospitals. CONCLUSIONS The novel CDSS possesses high-level semantic recognition of colonoscopy reports, provides appropriate recommendations, and holds the potential to be a powerful tool for physicians and patients. The hierarchical multi-label strategy and pre-training method should be amendable to manage more medical text in the future.
Humans ; Colonoscopy/methods* ; Deep Learning ; Decision Support Systems, Clinical ; Female ; Male

GBA1 gene mutation is an important genetic risk factor for Parkinson’s disease (PD). This paper reports a case of a 43-year-old male PD patient carrying a rare heterozygous Thr408Met mutation in the GBA1 gene identified through whole-exome sequencing, leading to a diagnosis of GBA1-associated PD. The patient’s motor symptoms were primarily characterized by bradykinesia and rigidity, without significant cognitive decline. Treatment with low-dose levodopa combined with a dopamine agonist resulted in significant symptomatic improvement.

Migraine is the most common neurological disorder with the highest disease burden， while the current outpatient diagnosis and treatment model cannot meet the requirements for reducing the disease burden of migraine， and it is necessary to reexamine its management from a patient-centered perspective. It should be recognized that the course of migraine is a dynamic process，and some clinical manifestations that are not included in the diagnostic criteria are meaningful for diagnosis.Several risk factors for the chronicity of migraine have been identified.In addition， various comorbidities can also affect diagnosis and treatment，and it is still unable to reliably predict the treatment response of migraine.Therefore， the management of migraine requires continuous revision of diagnosis and “trial-and-error” treatment.
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Objective:To evaluate the efficacy of 3D printing technology combined with computer navigation-assisted screw implantation in the treatment of atlantoaxial instability (AAI) complicated by vertebral artery anomalies.Methods:A retrospective case series study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 23 patients with AAI complicated by vertebral artery anomalies who were admitted to Honghui Hospital of Xi′an Jiaotong University between January 2019 and January 2023, including 10 males and 13 females, aged 19-70 years [(51.0±13.3)years]. Vertebral artery anomalies were categorized into unilateral high-riding vertebral artery with unilateral dominance ( n=14), bilateral high-riding vertebral arteries with unilateral dominance ( n=6), and ponticulus posticus ( n=3). All the patients underwent preoperative planning using a 3D-printed model of the atlantoaxial complex with the vertebral artery, followed by posterior atlantoaxial pedicle screw fixation with computer-assisted navigation. Operative duration and intraoperative blood loss were recorded. The accuracy of pedicle screw placement was assessed at 3 days postoperatively using the Gertzbein-Robbins classification. Visual analogue scale (VAS) scores and Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) scores were evaluated preoperatively, at 3 days, 3 months postoperatively, and at the last follow-up. Bony fusion was assessed using cervical CT with 3D reconstruction at the last follow-up. Complications were also observed. Results:All the patients were followed up for 12-19 months [(15.1±1.9)months]. The operative duration was 125-167 minutes [(140.6±10.9)minutes] and intraoperative blood loss was 200-600 ml [(295.7±77.8)ml]. At 3 days postoperatively, all the 66 pedicle screws were safely placed, with 60 screws (91%) rated as Gertzbein-Robbins Grade 0 and 6 screws (9%) as Grade 1. At 3 days and 3 months postoperatively, and at the last follow-up, the VAS scores were (4.0±1.0)points, (2.0±0.6)points, and (1.3±0.5)points, and the JOA scores were (14.2±1.2)points, (16.0±0.8)points, and (16.6±0.5)points, both of which were not only significantly improved compared with preoperative (5.6±1.3)points and (12.8±1.5)points, but also further improved over time ( P<0.05). At the last follow-up, 22 patients (96%) achieved satisfactory atlantoaxial bony fusion. No vertebral artery injury, spinal cord or nerve injury, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, or screw loosening were observed in any patients. Conclusion:For patients with AAI complicated by vertebral artery anomalies, 3D printing combined with computer navigation-assisted navigation for atlantoaxial pedicle screw implantation offers multiple advantages, including minimal surgical trauma, high screw placement accuracy, pain relief, neurological function improvement, high fusion rate, and lowered incidence of complications.

Objective:To compare the efficacy of robot system-assisted versus freehand screw revision for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with lower cervical fractures.Methods:A multicenter retrospective cohort study was conducted to analyze the clinical data of 57 patients with AS combined with lower cervical fractures admitted to Honghui Hospital Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou Orthopedic Hospital, and Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, including 46 males and 11 females, aged 38-77 years [(65.4±9.5)years]. Injury segments involved C 3 in 7 patients, C 4 in 13, C 5 in 25, C 6 in 10, and C 7 in 2. All the patients underwent revision surgery, among whom, 22 patients were treated with robot system-assisted cervical pedicle screw placement (robot nailing group, with 190 screws), and 35 with freehand cervical pedicle screw placement (freehand nailing group, with 300 screws). The operative duration, intraoperative bleeding volume, frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy, incision length, and length of hospital stay of the two groups were compared; the time of single nscrew insertion, the number of single nail revisions, the distance between screws and the anterior cortex, the accuracy of screw placement of grade 0 and grade 0+1 were recorded in the two groups. The visual analogue scale (VAS), Japanese Orthopedic Society (JOA) score, neck dysfunction index (NDI), American Spine Injury Association (ASIA) classification before operation, at 3 days, 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up were compared between the two groups. The complication rate was also noted. Results:All the patients were followed up for 12-16 months [(14.3±2.1)months]. The operative duration, intraoperative bleeding volume, and frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy were (186.4±12.9)minutes, (486.1±68.6)ml, and (3.4±1.3)times in the robot nailing group, which were shorter or less than (206.7±14.4)minutes, (660.3±45.2)ml, and (13.5±3.6)times in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The incision length was (9.4±2.4)cm in the robot nailing group, longer than (5.6±1.2)cm in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01), and the length of hospital stay was (3.7±0.4)days, shorter than (4.4±1.4)days in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The length of single nail insertion, the number of single nail revision, and the distance between the screws and the front cortex were (6.5±0.4)minutes, (1.1±0.1)times, and (3.5±1.3)mm in the robot nailing group, which were shorter or less than (11.6±0.2)minutes, (1.5±0.2)times, and (12.4±4.7)mm in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.01). The accuracy of the screw placement in the robot nailing group was 90.0% (171/190) and 95.8% (182/190) with level 0 and 0+1 screws, better than 80.0% (240/300) and 89.0% (267/300) in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.05). There was no significant difference in VAS, JOA score, NDI, or ASIA grading between the two groups before operation ( P>0.05). The VAS, JOA, and NDI scores at 3 days after operation were (3.1±0.6)points, (12.1±1.2)points, and (15.6±2.9)points, respectively in the robot nailing group, which were better than (5.0±1.4)points, (11.3±1.1)points and (22.5±3.7)points, respectively in the freehand nailing group ( P<0.05). No statistically significant difference was observed in the ASIA grade between the two groups at 3 days after operation ( P>0.05). There were no significant differences in VAS, JOA, NDI scores, or ASIA grading between the two groups at 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up ( P>0.05). Compared with those before operation, the VAS, JOA, NDI scores, and ASIA grading were significantly improved at 3 days, 3 months after operation and at the last follow-up in the two groups, which were further improved with the passage of time. Two patients in the robot nailing group had pneumonia, with a complication rate of 9% (2/22), while 2 patients in the freehand nailing group had dural sac rupture and cerebrospinal fluid leakage and 3 had lung infection after operation, with a complication rate of 14% (5/35) ( P<0.05). Conclusion:Compared with freehand nailing, the robot system-assisted nailing revision for AS with lower cervical fracture has more advantages in terms of the operative duration, length of hospital stay, intraoperative bleeding volume, frequency of intraoperative fluoroscopy nailing speed and accuracy, screw holding force, early pain relief, function restoration, and complication rate, despite longer surgical incision.

Objective:To evaluate the feasibility of pelvic floor muscle reconstruction for women with vaginal laxity accompanied by stress urinary incontinence (SUI).Methods:A prospective cohort clinical study was conducted to collect clinical data from patients with vaginal laxity and SUI admitted to the Urogenital Reconstructive and Gender-affirming Department at the Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Urology, Third Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, from January 2019 to September 2022. Patients underwent surgical treatment for pelvic floor muscle reconstruction. The cough provocation test and the patient global impression of improvement (PGI-I) scale were utilized as objective and subjective indicators of treatment effecacy, respectively. The urinary incontinence quality of life scale (I-QOL) and the pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence sexual function questionnaire 12(PISQ-12) were used to evaluate the changes in quality of life and sexual funtion. The changes in pelvic floor anatomical structure were evaluated by pelvic floor ultrasound. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 23.0. The I-QOL and PISQ-12 scores, posterior vesicourethral angle, urethral rotation angle, and bladder neck motion before and after surgery were analyzed using paired t-test, with P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results:A total of 36 female patients were included, with an average age of 41.7 years (ranged 24-51 years) and an average body mass index of 23.8 kg/m 2. The average operation time was 76.2 minutes, and the average blood loss was 84.5 milliliters. After 12-27 months of postoperative follow-up, the objective and subjective cure rates were 86.1% (31/36) and 88.9% (32/36), respectively. The sexual function and quality of life of the patients were significantly improved compared with the preoperative results, and postoperative pelvic floor ultrasound results showed significant improvement. The I-QOL and PISQ-12 scores 12 months after surgery were statistically significant compared with those before surgery ( P<0.01). Postoperative pelvic floor ultrasonography revealed statistically significant differences in posterior vesicourethral angle, urethral rotation angle, and bladder neck motion during maximum Valsalva maneuver compared to preoperative data ( P<0.01). Conclusion:Pelvic floor muscle reconstruction is a safe and effective surgical method for patients with vaginal laxity combined with SUI. This procedure can significantly improve sexual quality of life and alleviates SUI symptoms, restores anatomical structure in the female pelvic floor, and enhances overall quality of life.

Objective:To investigate the changes of different cytokines in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis（SJIA）and their role in early diagnosis.Methods:A retrospective study was conducted to select pediatric patients with fever accompanied by elevated levels of CRP，erythrocyte sedimentation rate（ESR），and ferritin who visited the Department of Renal Immunology，Children's Hospital of Soochow University from November 2019 to January 2023.Compare the differences in CRP，ESR，ferritin，and 34 plasma cytokines levels between children with SJIA and other autoimmune diseases.Cytokine risk was analyzed by regression；Correlation analysis was performed to determine whether cytokines were associated with lymphocyte subsets and disease activity.Results:During the study period，118 children with fever accompanied by elevated CRP，ESR and ferritin were eligible，among whom 20 children with SJIA were diagnosed，and 98 children with other autoimmune diseases were diagnosed.There was no statistically significant difference in CRP and ESR between SJIA patients and children with other autoimmune diseases（Z values were 0.721 and 0.345，all P>0.05）；There were significant differences in ferritin，IL-27，IL-17A，IL-31，IFN-γ，IL-18 between children with SJIA and those with other autoimmune diseases（Z values were 2.628，-2.052，-2.763，-2.135，4.067，4.419，all P<0.05）.Univariate Logistic regression analysis showed that IL-18（ OR=1.003，95% CI：1.002~1.004， P<0.001），IFN-γ（ OR=1.004，95% CI：1.001~1.007， P=0.004），IL-27（ OR=0.846，95% CI：0.716~0.999， P=0.049），IL-31（ OR=0.657，95% CI：0.451~0.959， P=0.028）were closely related to the occurrence of SJIA，and stepwise Logistic regression analysis indicated that the increase of IL-18（ OR=1.005，95% CI：1.003~1.009， P=0.004）increased the risk of SJIA，and the increase of IL-5（ OR=0.619，95% CI：0.402~0.953， P=0.029）decreased the risk.IL-18（ r=0.673， P=0.020），IL-27（ r=0.486， P=0.041）and TNF-α（ r=0.560， P=0.016）were positively correlated with the activity of SJIA. Conclusion:IL-18 presents a characteristic cytokine positively correlated with the risk of SJIA，while IL-5 presents a protective cytokine against SJIA.Both cytokines have independent predictive power for the risk.

Objective:To evaluate the feasibility of pelvic floor muscle reconstruction for women with vaginal laxity accompanied by stress urinary incontinence (SUI).Methods:A prospective cohort clinical study was conducted to collect clinical data from patients with vaginal laxity and SUI admitted to the Urogenital Reconstructive and Gender-affirming Department at the Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Urology, Third Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, from January 2019 to September 2022. Patients underwent surgical treatment for pelvic floor muscle reconstruction. The cough provocation test and the patient global impression of improvement (PGI-I) scale were utilized as objective and subjective indicators of treatment effecacy, respectively. The urinary incontinence quality of life scale (I-QOL) and the pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence sexual function questionnaire 12(PISQ-12) were used to evaluate the changes in quality of life and sexual funtion. The changes in pelvic floor anatomical structure were evaluated by pelvic floor ultrasound. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 23.0. The I-QOL and PISQ-12 scores, posterior vesicourethral angle, urethral rotation angle, and bladder neck motion before and after surgery were analyzed using paired t-test, with P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results:A total of 36 female patients were included, with an average age of 41.7 years (ranged 24-51 years) and an average body mass index of 23.8 kg/m 2. The average operation time was 76.2 minutes, and the average blood loss was 84.5 milliliters. After 12-27 months of postoperative follow-up, the objective and subjective cure rates were 86.1% (31/36) and 88.9% (32/36), respectively. The sexual function and quality of life of the patients were significantly improved compared with the preoperative results, and postoperative pelvic floor ultrasound results showed significant improvement. The I-QOL and PISQ-12 scores 12 months after surgery were statistically significant compared with those before surgery ( P<0.01). Postoperative pelvic floor ultrasonography revealed statistically significant differences in posterior vesicourethral angle, urethral rotation angle, and bladder neck motion during maximum Valsalva maneuver compared to preoperative data ( P<0.01). Conclusion:Pelvic floor muscle reconstruction is a safe and effective surgical method for patients with vaginal laxity combined with SUI. This procedure can significantly improve sexual quality of life and alleviates SUI symptoms, restores anatomical structure in the female pelvic floor, and enhances overall quality of life.