Objective To analyze the clinical characteristics and survival prognosis of patients with AIDS-related malignant tumor. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the data of 354 patients with AIDS-related malignant tumor. Univariate analysis was conducted by Log rank test and multivariate analysis was conducted by Cox proportional risk regression model. Results The average age of the patients was 54.10±12.96 years old. The ratio of male to female patients was 2.1:1. The number of patients with AIDS complicated with lymphoma was the most, accounting for 28.25%. The 1-, 3- and 5-year survival rates were 78.48%, 62.13% and 55.31%, respectively. Univariate analysis showed that there were statistical differences in prognosis of patients with different types of malignant tumor, age, gender, medical insurance type, number of admissions after diagnosis of AIDS, average length of stay, radiotherapy or not, leaving hospital according to medical advice. Multivariate analysis showed that gender, number of admissions after diagnosis of AIDS, average length of stay, proportion of out-of-pocket and leaving hospital according to medical advice were independent risk factors affecting the survival and prognosis of patients. Conclusion AIDS is easily complicated with lymphoma, lung cancer and cervical cancer. The patients received insufficient anti-tumor courses in hospital.

Objective:To investigate the survival prognosis of patients with primary liver cancer and its influencing factors.Methods:The retrospective and descriptive study was conducted. The clinicopathological data of 3 106 patients with primary liver cancer who had health insurance for special illness in the Chongqing Malignant Tumor Treatment System from January 2000 to August 2018 were collected. There were 2 559 males and 547 females, aged (60±13)years, with a range from 19 to 95 years. Observation indicators: (1) demographic characteristics; (2) clinical treatment and pathological examination; (3) follow-up and survival; (4) analysis of prognostic factors. Follow-up using telephone interview, outpatient or inpatient reexamination was preformed to detect survival of patients. Follow-up was done once every 3 months within the first year and once a year thereafter up to December 2018. Measurement data with normal distribution were represented as Mean± SD. Measurement data with skewed distribution were represent as M (range). Count data were expressed as absolute numbers or percentages. Survival analysis was done after excluding missing data of follow-up. The survival rate was calculated and survival curve was drawn by Kaplan-Meier method. The prognostic factors were analyzed after excluding missing data of follow-up, pathological type, and TNM staging. The log-rank test was used for univariate analysis, and COX proportional hazard model was used for multivariate analysis. Results:(1) Demographic characteristics: of the 3 106 patients with primary liver cancer, the number of males and females (gender), cases with age < 30 years, from 30 to 44 years, from 45 to 59 years, from 60 to 74 years, ≥75 years, cases of Han nationality or other ethnic groups, cases being married or other status (marital status), cases with occupation as enterprise unit staff and (or) workers, public institution personnel and (or) civil servants, freelancers and (or) self-employed entrepreneurs, unemployed, company staff, and other professionals were 2 559, 547, 35, 362, 1 131, 1 163, 415, 3 053, 53, 2 896, 210, 880, 342, 130, 101, 124, and 1 529, respectively. (2) Clinical treatment and pathological examination: of the 3 106 patients with primary liver cancer, cases with hospitalization time < 10 days, from 10 to 19 days, from 20 to 29 days, ≥30 days, cases without surgery or with surgery, cases with hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, hybrid type and other pathological types, cases of stage Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ of TNM staging were respectively 771, 1 312, 661, 362, 915, 2 191, 836, 63, 24, 29, 28, 90, 624. There were 2 183 out of 3 106 patients without pathological data and 2 335 without TNM staging data. (3) Follow-up and survival: of the 3 106 patients with primary liver cancer, 2 561 were followed up for 3.0-96.0 months, with a median follow-up time of 27.6 months. The 2 561 patients had survived for 1.0-96.0 months, with a median survival time of 24.7 months. The 1-, 3-, 5-year survival rates were 63.2%, 42.3%, 29.5%, respectively. (4) Analysis of prognostic factors: results of univariate analysis showed that age, marital status, occupation, hospitalization time, surgical treatment, pathological types, and TNM staging were related factors for prognosis of patients ( χ2=31.820, 6.752, 39.100, 120.889, 226.700, 10.452, 48.602, P<0.05). Results of multivariate analysis showed that being married, hospitalization time no less than 30 days, surgical treatment were independent protective factors for prognosis ( hazard ratio=1.463, 0.572, 0.575, 95% confidence interval: 1.044-2.049, 0.413-0.793, 0.438-0.755, P<0.05), stage Ⅲ and Ⅳ of TNM staging were independent risk factors for prognosis of patients ( hazard ratio=3.941, 5.036, 95% confidence interval: 1.687-9.211, 2.237-11.335, P<0.05). Conclusions:Patients with primary liver cancer have poor prognosis. Being married, hospitalization time no less than 30 days, and surgical treatment are independent protective factors for prognosis, stage Ⅲ and Ⅳ of TNM staging are independent risk factors for prognosis.

This corrects the article “Analysis of Tau Protein Expression in Predicting Pathological Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Different Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer” in volume 23 on page 47.This article was initially published on the Journal of Breast Cancer with a misspelled the abbreviation in figure 3. The abbreviation ‘HP’ should be corrected as ‘HR’.

PURPOSE: Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that can be found in both normal and abnormal breast cells. Whether the expression of Tau protein can predict the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is still unclear. In this study, we assessed the role of Tau protein expression in predicting a pathological complete response (pCR) to NACT for different subtypes of breast cancer. METHODS: Four hundred and sixty-eight eligible patients were retrospectively recruited in our study. The relationship between clinicopathologic factors, including Tau protein expression, and pCR in different subtypes was evaluated using logistic regression analysis. Correlation between Tau and disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) was performed using Kaplan–Meier analysis. RESULTS: The expression of Tau protein was negatively correlated with pCR, especially in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). No significant difference was observed in the luminal human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-negative subtype and HER2-positive subtype. Patients with pCR were associated with better DFS and OS (p < 0.05). However, Tau protein expression had no association with either DFS or OS (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION Tau protein expression can predict pCR before NACT in TNBC, but there was no correlation between Tau expression and DFS or OS.

Objectives: To study the relationship between the anatomical parameters of transverse foramen and intervertebral discs in the cross-section of the cervical spine in healthy adults, and to evaluate the risk of vertebral artery injury in the anterior cervical spine surgery. Methods: There were 24 healthy adults(12 male, 12 female) underwent neck CT angiography with clear vertebral artery and the adjacent structure imaging from June to December 2014 in Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. The anatomical parameters of vertebral artery V2 segment with lower cervical vertebrae and intervertebral discs were measured by cross-sectional images of C_3-6. The corresponding parameters of different sex and both sides of the same segment were analyzed by independent samples t-test and paired t test, respectively. The least significant difference(LSD) t test was used to compare the corresponding data between different segments. Results: The vertebral artery was not walking in the middle of the transverse foramen in healthy individual, but partial medial, partial front walking. Transverse diameter of transverse foramen in male and female were 6.62-6.89 mm and 6.21-6.45 mm, and sagittal diameter was 5.41-6.48 mm and 5.40-6.10 mm, respectively.The transverse foramen were slightly oval. The distance between vertebral artery and midline in male and female were 14.23-16.12 mm and 13.60-15.04 mm, respectively, which was much larger than the width of cervical vertebral corpectomy. Compared with C_3-4, intervertebral disc, the transverse distance between the vertebral artery and the uncovertebral joint of C_4-5, C_5-6 was smaller, and the distance from the vertebral artery to the posterior margin of the uncovertebral joint was relatively small, the difference was statistically significant (t=2.449, P=0.022). The distance from vertebral artery to the posterior margin of uncinate process was 1/5-2/5 of the distance between the anterior and posterior edge of the corresponding segmental vertebra. Conclusion Based on this anatomical study, the risk of vertebral artery injury in conventional anterior cervical decompression is small, and the risk of vertebral artery injury in different segments is slightly different.

OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for developing effective interventions to self-medication and promoting reason-able self-medication. METHODS:Questionnaires were designed based on the modified Anderson's behavioral model of health ser-vices. By using cluster sampling,residents were randomly selected from 4 districts of Wuhan city to analyze the self-medication be-havior and its influential factors. RESULTS:Totally 204 questionnaires were sent and 199 were recovered with effective rate of 97.5%. The result showed 47.7% residents who perceived discomfort within 2 weeks medicated themselves,and the rate was high-er thansee the doctor. Among self-medication residents,the rate of mild disease,general and serious disease was separately 50.5%,46.3% and 3.2%. The length of illness<7 d and the length of illness ≥7 d accounted for 95.8% and 4.2%,separately. Cold and cough was the highest cost disease for self-medication. The reasons for selecting self-medication were:no need tosee the doctor(43.2%),trouble-saving(23.1%),high medical costs(14.6%),no time to see the doctor(14.6%). 54.1% residents acquired basic medication knowledge from the past experience,25.5% from other's recommendation,and the other from the inter-net,newspaper and magazines. As for the effect of self-medication in the past one year,75.4% residents considered most were ef-fective. 18.6%had suffered from ADR due to self-medication;the incidence of ADR in the residents reading the instruction was sig-nificantly lower than those not reading the instruction(P<0.05);the ratio of reading the instruction in residents with low education level was significantly lower than that with high education level(P<0.05). Single factor analysis showed that residents'choice of self-medication were significantly influenced by the marital status,education,monthly income,medicare,accessibility of medical institutions,the severity of disease and duration of illness(P<0.05). The proportion of self-medication for married group was sig-nificantly higher than unmarried group;the proportion of self-medication for low education level group was significantly higher than high education level group;the proportion of self-medication for low monthly income group was significantly higher than high monthly income group;the proportion of self-medication for group with business medical insurance or self payment was significant-close to medical institutions;the proportion of self-medication for mild disease group was significantly higher than serious disease group;the proportion of self-medication for length of disease≥7 d was significantly lower than length of disease<7 d. Results of multivariate analysis showed that severity of disease and length of disease were the important influential factors for the choice of self-medication(P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS:Self-medication is common in Wuhan city,and mainly for general and chronic dis-ease. Residents don't pay enough attention to reading the drug instructions. Self-medication is affected by various factors which has a certain health risks.

OBJECTIVETo investigate the risk factors of early surgical intervention in Crohn's disease (CD) patients with spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess.

METHODSClinical data of 94 CD patients with spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess admitted to The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University between May 2008 and Dec 2015 were analyzed retrospectively. Univariate and multivariate analysis were applied to evaluate the early surgery risk of CD patients with spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess using logistic regression model.

RESULTSA total of 94 eligible patients were identified from our registry, including 70 males and 24 females. The mean age at the diagnosis of CD and at development of abscess was 28.4 years and 30.4 years old, respectively. The median duration of CD between the diagnosis and development of an abscess was 3 years. According to the Montreal classification, L3 (ileocolonic) was the most common disease location (81.9%) in these patients. Most of the patients(76.6%) developed a single abscess, while multiple abscesses were detected in 22 patients(23.4%). Forty-four patients(46.8%) underwent surgery within 60 days after hospitalization due to spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess complicating CD. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that history of abdominal surgery(OR=3.23, 95%CI:1.12 to 9.31, P=0.030), concomitant intestinal stenosis (OR=3.52, 95%CI:1.26 to 9.85, P=0.017) and concomitant intestinal fistula (OR=4.31, 95%CI:1.25 to 14.80, P=0.020) were the independent risk factors of early surgical intervention, while enteral nutrition (OR=0.18, 95%CI:0.05 to 0.62, P=0.007) was the independent protective factor.

CONCLUSIONSNearly half of CD patients with spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess will undergo early surgical intervention. Patients with history of abdominal surgery, concomitant intestinal stenosis and concomitant intestinal fistula have higher risk of early surgical intervention, and appropriate application of enteral nutrition may reduce the risk.

OBJECTIVETo explore the efficacy of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) in a murine model of inflammatory bowel disease, and its potential mechanism.

METHODSMurine colitis mouse model of Crohn's disease(CD) was created by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid(TNBS)-induced colitis. Seventy-five 6-8 weeks female BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, TNBS group and ADMSC group. To verify the therapeutic effect of ADMSC, real-time PCR and immunohistochemical staining were performed to measure inflammatory cytokines levels in colon tissues. The 10-day survival statuses were recorded after the infusion of ADMSCs.

RESULTSIntraperitoneal injection of ADMSCs alleviated the clinical and histopathologic severity of intestinal inflammation, and increased survival(60% vs. 30%, P<0.05) in the TNBS-induced mouse model of CD. Compared with TNBS group, proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF of ADMSC group were significantly reduced, with significant increase of IL-10 expression.

CONCLUSIONADMSCs can effectively repair the injury of colonitis through down-regulation of proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF expression, and up-regulation of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 expression, which may be a potential new alternative of cell-based therapy for CD.

Adipocytes ; Animals ; Colitis ; Crohn Disease ; Cytokines ; Disease Models, Animal ; Down-Regulation ; Female ; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ; Mesenchymal Stromal Cells ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Trinitrobenzenesulfonic Acid ; Up-Regulation

Objective To explore the efficacy of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) in a murine model of inflammatory bowel disease, and its potential mechanism. Methods Murine colitis mouse model of Crohn′s disease (CD) was created by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis. Seventy-five 6-8 weeks female BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, TNBS group and ADMSC group. To verify the therapeutic effect of ADMSC, real-time PCR and immunohistochemical staining were performed to measure inflammatory cytokines levels in colon tissues. The 10-day survival statuses were recorded after the infusion of ADMSCs. Results Intraperitoneal injection of ADMSCs alleviated the clinical and histopathologic severity of intestinal inflammation, and increased survival(60% vs. 30%, P<0.05) in the TNBS-induced mouse model of CD. Compared with TNBS group, proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF of ADMSC group were significantly reduced, with significant increase of IL-10 expression. Conclusion ADMSCs can effectively repair the injury of colonitis through down-regulation of proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF expression, and up-regulation of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 expression, which may be a potential new alternative of cell-based therapy for CD.

Objective To explore the efficacy of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) in a murine model of inflammatory bowel disease, and its potential mechanism. Methods Murine colitis mouse model of Crohn′s disease (CD) was created by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis. Seventy-five 6-8 weeks female BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 3 groups: control group, TNBS group and ADMSC group. To verify the therapeutic effect of ADMSC, real-time PCR and immunohistochemical staining were performed to measure inflammatory cytokines levels in colon tissues. The 10-day survival statuses were recorded after the infusion of ADMSCs. Results Intraperitoneal injection of ADMSCs alleviated the clinical and histopathologic severity of intestinal inflammation, and increased survival(60% vs. 30%, P<0.05) in the TNBS-induced mouse model of CD. Compared with TNBS group, proinflammatory cytokines, including TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF of ADMSC group were significantly reduced, with significant increase of IL-10 expression. Conclusion ADMSCs can effectively repair the injury of colonitis through down-regulation of proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IL-12 and VEGF expression, and up-regulation of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 expression, which may be a potential new alternative of cell-based therapy for CD.