OBJECTIVE To investigate the causes of abnormal rising trends of isolation rate and infection of Staph-ylococcus aureus in the breast surgery department of a specialized cancer hospital.METHODS By means of pro-spective survey in combination with retrospective survey,an epidemiological survey was conducted for 5 patients with hospital-associated S.aureus infection who were treated in breast surgery department of Sun Yat-sen Univer-sity Cancer Center from Jan.2023 to Aug.2023,and the homology was observed.RESULTS The incidence rate of hospital-associated S.aureus infection(ward E 0.08％,ward F 0.38％)of the breast surgery department patients was higher during the period from Jan.2023 to Aug.2023,higher than 0.004％of the whole patients during the same period.The environmental sampling result showed that the colonized rate of S.aureus was 17.39％(4/23)and in nasal cavity 7.41％(2/27)in hands of the healthcare workers,and 28.57％in nasal cavity of logistical per-sonnel.Bundle interventions could reduce the incidence of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant S.aureus(MRSA)infection and the colonized rate in hands of the healthcare workers but had less impact on the colonized rate in the nasal cavity.The result of pulse field gel electrophoresis(PFGE)indicated that there was risk of cross transmission of colonized S.aureus between the hands of healthcare workers and the nasal cavities.The hand hy-giene,measures for contact transmission and environmental disinfection were supposed to be taken as the major links for control of the hospital-associated S.aureus infection.CONCLUSIONS The sporadic community-ac-quired infections and hospital-associated infections are the leading causes of the abnormal rise of the isolation rate and the infection rate of S.aureus in the breast surgery department.The bundle prevention and control measures can block the transmission of infections.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the causes of abnormal rising trends of isolation rate and infection of Staph-ylococcus aureus in the breast surgery department of a specialized cancer hospital.METHODS By means of pro-spective survey in combination with retrospective survey,an epidemiological survey was conducted for 5 patients with hospital-associated S.aureus infection who were treated in breast surgery department of Sun Yat-sen Univer-sity Cancer Center from Jan.2023 to Aug.2023,and the homology was observed.RESULTS The incidence rate of hospital-associated S.aureus infection(ward E 0.08％,ward F 0.38％)of the breast surgery department patients was higher during the period from Jan.2023 to Aug.2023,higher than 0.004％of the whole patients during the same period.The environmental sampling result showed that the colonized rate of S.aureus was 17.39％(4/23)and in nasal cavity 7.41％(2/27)in hands of the healthcare workers,and 28.57％in nasal cavity of logistical per-sonnel.Bundle interventions could reduce the incidence of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant S.aureus(MRSA)infection and the colonized rate in hands of the healthcare workers but had less impact on the colonized rate in the nasal cavity.The result of pulse field gel electrophoresis(PFGE)indicated that there was risk of cross transmission of colonized S.aureus between the hands of healthcare workers and the nasal cavities.The hand hy-giene,measures for contact transmission and environmental disinfection were supposed to be taken as the major links for control of the hospital-associated S.aureus infection.CONCLUSIONS The sporadic community-ac-quired infections and hospital-associated infections are the leading causes of the abnormal rise of the isolation rate and the infection rate of S.aureus in the breast surgery department.The bundle prevention and control measures can block the transmission of infections.

Objective:To explore the clinical and genetic features in a case of fatal familial insomnia (FFI).Methods:A case of 39 years old woman diagnosed as progressive supranuclear palsy based on the preliminary manifestation of imbalance and frequent falls was reported. The clinical features, imaging characteristics, electroencephalogram and polysomnography of the patient were analyzed, and the blood samples from the patient were collected for the sequencing of prion protein (PRNP) gene.Results:This patient is a middle-aged woman, whose clinical manifestations were posture instability and retropulsion, rapid progressive dementia and dysarthria, sleep-related dyspnea and laryngeal stridor, with autonomic symptoms of hypertension, sweating, tachycardia and irregular breathing. The results of PRNP gene sequencing revealed that the mutation of gene D178N/129M was detected.Conclusions:Laryngeal stridor plays an important role in the diagnosis of FFI. Posture instability and retropulsion are relatively rare in the FFI clinical symptom spectrum. Here, a case of FFI presenting with posture instability and retropulsion during the early stage with Met/Met at the polymorphic codon 129 is reported in China.

Objective To study the impact of weight loss surgery after 3 months of stable condition through intervention on patients with obese hyperlipidemic acute pancreatitis (HLAP).Methods Ten patients with obese HLAP who underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) at the General Surgery Department of our hospital were followed-up at 1,3,6,12,24 months after surgery.Their weight,BMI,EWL,and blood parameters (TG,LDL-C,HDL-C,TC,FPG,HbA1c,UA,hs-CRP,ESR,and hemorheology indexes) were compared.The impact on postoperative obese HLAP was assessed.Results The weight,BMI,EWL and blood index (TG,LDL-C,HDL-C,TC,FPG,HbA1c,UA,hs-CRP,ESR,and hemorheology indexes) of the patients gradually decreased.The decrease was significantly different from that before surgery (P＜0.05),which became stable at 12 months and with no recurrence at 24 months after surgery.Conclusions LSG reduced body weight and improved metabolic status of the patients.It stopped the occurrence of obese HLAP.LSG can be used as an effective intervention for patients with obese HLAP.

Objective To study the relationship of early postoperative CRP and PCT with pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD);to study whether the combination of CRP and PCT can be used as an early predictor of pancreatic fistula;and to determine the optimal cut-off values of CRP and PCT for early diagnosis of pancreatic fistula after PD.Methods Postoperative pancreatic fistula and other complications were recorded in 82 patients after PD carried out at the Anshan Iron and Steel Group General Hospital from January 2013 to May 2017.PCT and CRP were measured on the 1st to the 5th postoperative day (POD).CRP and PCT were compared between the pancreatic fistula group and the non-complication group on pancreatic fistula prediction.The sensitivity,specificity,and combined sensitivity,combined specificity,negative predictive value,positive predictive value and optimal cut-off value were calculated.Results 56 patients developed postoperative complications,including 17 patients with pancreatic fistula,and 39 patients with non-pancreatic fistula.The postoperative CRP and PCT were correlated with postoperative pancreatic fistula and with other complications.The higher the CRP and PCT,the higher the risk of postoperative pancreatic fistula.The ROC curves suggested that CRP and PCT had a high predictive value for pancreatic fistula,especially on POD 2.The optimal cut-off value of CRP was 189.05 mg/L,the sensitivity was 94.1％,the specificity was 81.5％,the positive predictive value was 94.7％,and the negative predictive value was 24.4％.The optimal cut-off value of PCT was 0.89 mg/dl,the sensitivity was 88.2％,the specificity was 84.6％,the positive predictive value was 91.3％,and the negative predictive value was 20.5％.The sensitivity and specificity of combined CRP with PCT on POD 2 in predicting pancreatic fistula after operations were 100％ and 69.1％,respectively.Conclusion Combined CRP and PCT had a high early predictive rate in the identification of pancreatic fistula after PD.