1.Depressive and anxious symptoms and their comorbidity among Chinese residents in 2021 and 2022
Limin RONG ; Yi ZHENG ; Ximing DUAN ; Yanzhi LIU ; Xiaoyan ZHANG ; Ruiyu HU ; Li ZHU ; Yueqin HUANG ; Yibo WU ; Fuqin MU ; Yan LIU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2023;37(12):1023-1030
Objective:To analyze the detection rate and related factors of depressive and anxious symptoms comorbidity in 2021 and 2022.Methods:Based on the results of the Seventh National Population Census in 2021,the residents of 32 provinces,municipalities,and autonomous regions were sampled by gender and age.The gender and age of the samples were in line with the characteristics of China's population.A face-to-face interview survey was conducted in community residents in each province in 2021(n=11 005)and 2022(n=30 421)with the Gen-eralized Anxiety Questionnaire-7 and Patient Health Questionnaire-9.Results:The detection rates of depressive and anxious symptoms comorbidity were 10.67%in 2021 and 11.72%in 2022.The prevalence of depressive and anxi-ety comorbidity were higher in male,younger(age≤17 years),divorced,lower BMI(BMI<18.5 kg/m2),higher education(graduate),students,and residents with chronic medical history(Ps<0.001).In 2022,32.06%of people with depressive symptoms had anxious symptoms and 47.62%of people with anxious symptoms had depressive symptoms.Conclusion:In 2021 and 2022,the detection rates of depressive and anxious symptoms comorbidity were both about 10%,and half of patients with anxious symptoms were accompanied by depressive symptoms,So atten-tion should be paid to the comorbidity of depression and anxiety symptoms.
2.A preliminary study on the dynamic imaging of chest high resolution CT in patients with mild COVID-19
Zhaoping CHENG ; Yan LI ; Yanhua DUAN ; Hui GU ; Changhu LIANG ; Yumao YAN ; Baojuan GAO ; Shaoxian LI ; Linlin SUN ; Ximing WANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2020;54(6):548-551
Objective:To explore the evolution of imaging findings on dynamic chest high resolution CT(HRCT) in patients with mild COVID-19.Methods:The data of epidemiology, clinical data and continuous dynamic chest high-resolution CT images of the patients with mild COVID-19 were analyzed retrospectively. Twenty-five patients (including 24 common type and 1 mild) were enrolled in the group, including 14 males and 11 females, with age of (42±12) years and hospital stay of (19±5) days. The basic images and dynamic images of HRCT were analyzed and compared by the radiologists.Results:The clinical manifestations were fever (22 cases), cough (18 cases), expectoration (8 cases), pharyngeal pain (6 cases). Most laboratory tests lacked specificity. There were no significant abnormalities on chest CT of one mild patient. HRCT findings of the common type were as follows: (1) the distribution of the lesions: most of the multiple lesions involved both lungs (19 cases), with average of 3 (3±1) lobes, located in the peripheral pulmonary zone near the pleura (22 cases); (2) the morphology and density of the lesions: most of the lesions were ground glass density foci (22 cases), which were patchy and massive (18 cases), nodular (10 cases) and arc broadband (7 cases); with the development of the disease, the density of some lesions increased with localized pulmonary consolidation (10 cases), accompanied by air bronchus sign (5 cases) and halo sign (5 cases). Dynamic changes of HRCT images in the chest: the positive manifestations were found on the 5th (5, 6) day after the onset of the disease, the progressive time of CT lesions was 5 (5, 7) days, the peak time of CT lesions was 11 (10, 13) days, and the turning time of CT lesions was 9 (8, 11) days.Conclusions:Dynamic chest HRCT can monitor the basic evolution process of the disease in patients with mild COVID-19, and provide a more intuitive basis for clinical early diagnosis and treatment.
3.Clinical value of 70 kV combined with low contrast agent CT scan in the diagnosis of pediatric coronary artery disease
Yanhua DUAN ; Li CHEN ; Guangming LU ; Dawei WU ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Ximing WANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2018;52(7):507-512
Objective DSA and/or surgery was used as a control to evaluate the image quality, radiation dose and diagnostic efficacy of 70 kV combined with low contrast agent dose and 80 kV dual-source CT scanning of coronary artery. Methods Between Apr, 2012 and Apr, 2017, a total of 150 consecutive pediatrics with suspected or confirmed coronary arterial diseases underwent DSCTCA, and the patients were randomly divided into 3 groups by different scanning protocols. Group A (n=50): 80 kV with 1.5 ml/kg contrast agent;Group B (n=50): 70 kV with 1.5 ml/kg contrast agent;Group C (n=50): 70 kV with 1.0 ml/kg contrast agent. ANOVA was used to compare the differences of subjective coronary arteries image quality between the three groups; The t-test was used to compare the difference in effective radiation dose between the 70 kV group and the 80 kV group; The surgery and/or angiography results were used as gold standard to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the three groups. Results All patients underwent DSCTCA successfully and satisfactory diagnostic images were gained . The mean scores of subjective image quality of coronary artery were 3.5±0.7, 3.4±0.6, 3.7±0.8, respectively. There was no significant difference between the 3 groups (F=2.042, P=0.133). The diagnostic accuracy of the three groups for coronary artery disease was 100%, as the surgical and/or angiographic results were used as gold standard. The effective radiation doses in 80 kV group (A group) and the 70 kV group (B+C group) were (0.49 ± 0.04) and (0.30 ± 0.03) mSv, respectively, with a statistically significant difference (t=4.037, P=0.001). Conclusions DSCTCA can better display and diagnose pediatric coronary artery lesions with 70 kV tube voltage combined with low contrast agent, and has a high diagnostic accuracy. It is a reliable method for diagnosing pediatric coronary artery disease.
4.Application of 70 kV with 30 mL contrast medium by dual-source CT with Stellar photon detector in coronary angiography
Baojin CHEN ; Ximing WANG ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Yanhua DUAN ; Yaodong QI ; Rui KANG ; Wen LIU
Journal of Practical Radiology 2016;32(3):432-436
Objective To investigate the value of prospectively electrocardiogram (ECG)-triggered high-pitch coronary computed tomography angiography at 70 kV and 30 mL contrast medium with Stellar detector dual-source CT.Methods 60 patients with the BMI<24.9 kg/m2 were randomized into two groups:Group A (30 cases)with the tube voltage of 70 kV and 30 mL contrast medi-um.Group B (30 cases)with the tube voltage of 100 kV and 50 mL contrast medium.All the patients were performed with a Stellar detector dual-source CT using a prospectively ECG triggered high-pitch spiral technique.The images of Group A were reconstructed with SAFIRE technique,while Group B were with FBP technique.The objective image quality includes CT attenuation,SNR, CNR.And radiation dose was also calculated.The subjective was evaluated by 4-scale point.Independent sample t test was used.Re-sults There was no difference for subjective image quality between the groups,A:(3.38±0.942),B:(3.50±0.682),(t=-0.562, P >0.05).The CT attenuation of the 70 kV group were higher than that of the 100 kV group for all the segments(P <0.01).The SNR and the CNR have no statistically significant difference between the groups (P >0.05).Compared with the 100 kV group,the radiation dose of the 70 kV group was reduced by 76.5% (A:0.19±0.023 mSv,B:0.81±0.101 mSv,P <0.01).Conclusion Using 70 kV with 30 mL contrast medium in Stellar detector dual-source CT coronary angiography for the patients with a normal BMI could obtain qualified diagnostic image with low radiation dose and contrast medium.
5.Accuracy, image quality and radiation dose comparison of prospective ECG-gated sequential and high-pitch acquisition on 128-slice dual-source CT angiography in infants and children with congenital heart disease
Pei NIE ; Guangjie YANG ; Wenjian XU ; Yanhua DUAN ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Xiaopeng JI ; Ximing WANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2016;50(6):421-427
Objective To compare the accuracy, image quality and radiation dose between prospective ECG?gated sequential and high?pitch acquisition on 128?slice dual?source CT (DSCT) angiography in infants and children with congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods Ninety?two children with CHD from October 2011 to February 2013 were prospectively enrolled and assigned into two groups according to random number table. Forty?six patients underwent DSCT angiography with sequential mode, and the other 46 patients were examined with high?pitch mode. With surgical and/or DSA results as the standard, the diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity of the two groups for the intracardiac structures, extracadiac and coronary artery anomalies were evaluated, and the comparison was analyzed by Fisher exact test. A 5?grade scoring system was used to interpret the image quality of intracardiac structures, great vessels and the proximal and middle segments of coronary arteries. Interobserver agreement on grades of image quality was assessed by Kappa statistics. The image quality scores were compared using the Mann?Whitney U test. The Student t test or the Mann?Whitney U test was used to analyze the differences between the two groups regarding to patients' age, weight , heat rate, CT attenuation, image noise and SNR in the ascending aorta and the pulmonary trunk as well as radiation dose. Results All 92 patients successfully underwent DSCT angiography. The diagnostic accuracies of intracardiac anomalies by high?pitch group and sequential group were 95.65%(88/92) and 99.28%(274/276), showed significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05), but no significant difference in the sensitivity of intracardiac anomalies (P>0.05) .There was no significant difference in the diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity of extracadiac anomalies between the two groups (P>0.05). The diagnostic accuracies of coronary artery anomalies by high?pitch group and sequential group were 93.48%(43/46) and 100.00%(46/46), showed no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05), but there was significant difference in the sensitivity of coronary artery anomalies (50.00%(3/6) , 100.00% (11/11)) (P<0.05). There was excellent agreement for image quality scoring of the intracardiac structures, great vessels and the proximal and middle coronary arteries between the two observers (Kappa=0.81, 0.85, 0.85, P<0.05). The median image quality scores of extracardiac great vessels were both 5.00 in high?pitch group and sequential group, and there was no significant difference between the two groups (U=981.000, P>0.05). The median image quality scores of intracardiac structures and proximal and middle segments of coronary arteries respectively by high?pitch group were 4.00 and 3.00, and 5.00 and 4.00 respectively by sequential group. The image quality of intracardiac structures (U=594.500, P<0.05) and proximal and middle segments of coronary arteries (U=397.500, P<0.05) was significantly better in the sequential group than that in the high?pitch group. There was no significant difference between the two groups in CT attenuation, noise and SNR of the ascending aorta and pulmonary trunk. The mean effective doses of the high?pitch group and the sequential group were(0.27±0.11)and(0.39±0.17)mSv, and showed significant difference between the two groups (t=4.316, P<0.05). Conclusions Both sequential and high?pitch mode of 128?slice DSCT angiography provide high accuracy for the assessment of CHD in infants and children, while the high?pitch mode, though with some image quality declined, shows further significantly lower radiation dose.
6.The application of dual-source Flash post-processing software for the evaluation of bronchial artery
Rui KANG ; Ximing WANG ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Yanhua DUAN ; Xiaopeng JI ; Baojin CHEN
Journal of Practical Radiology 2016;(2):285-287,330
Objective To evaluate feasibility and time efficiency of dual-source flash post-processing software (Bone Reading)for reconstruction of bronchial artery.Methods The imaging data of 70 patients with suspected bronchial artery dilatation who underwent bronchial artery-CTA were evaluated by 2 independent radiologists.First,the related contents of bronchial artery such as origination,number, type,route and lumen diameter were evaluated by multiple planar reconstruction (MPR),maximum intensity projection (MIP)and volume rendering technique (VRT).The results and process time were recorded.After a month,the post-processing software(Bone Reading)was used to evaluate the same contents.Results There was very good correlation between both readers for both reading methods without significant differences.There was significant difference of process time between with regular method and with Bone Reading (P<0.05)for both readers.Process time could be decreased by approximately 35%.Conclusion The application of CT software (Bone Reading)is feasible in the CTA of bronchial artery.This method may gain a significant time saving in comparison to regular method.
7.Detection of coronary artery anomaly in patients with complex congenital heart disease by dual-source CT
Zhaoping CHENG ; Shihua ZHAO ; Huaibing CHENG ; Minjie LU ; Bin ZHAO ; Tao WANG ; Yanhua DUAN ; Lebin WU ; Ximing WANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2015;(7):515-519
Objective To explore the clinical usefulness of low-dose dual-source CT (DSCT) angiography in detecting coronary artery anomaly (CAA) in patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods A total of 615 consecutive patients with complex CHD who underwent DSCT angiography between 2008 and 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. According to the ultrasonic results, a total of 312 patients with tetralogy of Fallot (n=176 cases) or double outlet right ventricle (n=72 cases) or pulmonary artery atresia (n=64 cases) were included. Scans were divided into 3 groups: retrospective electrocardiogram (ECG)-triggered spiral scanning in 75 cases, prospective ECG?triggered spiral scanning in 158 cases, and prospective ECG?triggered high?pitch spiral scanning in 79 cases. The subjective image quality was evaluated with a four?point scale by two radiologists. Radiation dose values were calculated. Interobserver agreement in subjective image quality grading was assessed by using Kappa statistics. The scanning groups were compared with the Kruskal?Wallis test. Results The incidence of CAA was 8.0 %(25/312). CAA was detected in 7.9%(14/176)patients with tetralogy of Fallot, 8.3%(6/72)patients with double outlet right ventricle, 7.8%(5/64)patients with pulmonary artery atresia. In 76%(19/25)of the patients, the anomalous vessels were crossing the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT). Thirty of 312 CT examinations were nondiagnostic (9.6%). Two radiologists acquired good agreement (Kappa=0.72,P<0.01). The median subjective image quality score of three scan groups was 3 (range 1—4). The score in high?pitch spiral scanning group was significantly lower than those in other two groups (H=29.1,P<0.01). Retrospective ECG?triggered scans had a median dose of 1.19 mSv(range 0.52—3.29 mSv), prospectively ECG?triggered scans had a median dose of 0.51 mSv(range 0.27—2.13 mSv), and prospectively ECG?triggered high?pitch spiral scans had a median effective dose of 0.30 mSv(range 0.18—0.62 mSv). The difference between groups was statistically significant (H=160.0, P<0.01). Conclusions DSCT angiography is a reliable diagnostic method for the assessment of CAA with complex CHD and low?dose prospectively ECG?triggered DSCT scan is the best choice.
8.Value of ultrasonography in the persistent sciatic artery
Hengtao QI ; Ximing WANG ; Yanhua DUAN ; Xiandong ZHANG ; Shougang BAO ; Shiyi ZHANG ; Jianbo TENG
Chinese Journal of Ultrasonography 2015;24(3):220-222
Objective To study the clinical value of color Doppler ultrasonography in the persistent sciatic artery.Methods The ultrasonographic images of eleven patients with persistent sciatic artery diagnosed by CT angiography or digital subtraction angiography were retrospective analyzed,the ultrasonographic features were summarized.Results The sciatic artery showed the enlarged internal iliac artery,which continued into the thigh in a posterior location,the sciatic artery described a tortuous course toward the knee,slowly filling normal-appearing popliteal artery in 8 cases,there were no connection with popliteal artery in 1 cases.The common femoral artery and superficial femoral artery was dysplasia in 7 patients,which was thinner than the popliteal artery.Conclusions The ultrasonography is the effective imaging method for diagnosis of the persistent sciatic artery.
9.Application of low tube voltage and low volume contrast medium protocol on 128-slice dual-source CT in children with tetralogy of Fallot
Ting CAO ; Ximing WANG ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Yanhua DUAN ; Jinyan LI
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2015;(8):577-581
Objective To investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of cardiovascular computed tomography angiography(CTA) in 128-slice DSCT with low tube voltage and low dosage contrast media in children with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Methods Forty patients with TOF were randomly divided into group A and group B by random number table method, patients in group A received a conventional scan with 80 kVp and contrast media of 1.2 ml/kg, patients in group B, 70 kVp and contrast media of 1.0 ml/kg were used. The injection time of the two groups were both fixed for 12 s. CT attenuation, image noise and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of ascending aorta, the main pulmonary artery, left ventricle and right ventricle were quantified. Radiation dose and volume of the contrast medium were recorded. Subjective image quality was assessed by two radiologists in consensus. The Student's t test was performed to analyse the differences between the two groups regarding CT attenuation, image noise, SNR, radiation dose and volume of the contrast medium. The image quality scores between the two groups were compared by using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results No significant difference was found in the attenuation, noise, SNR between the two groups in the same evaluated anatomic regions and no significant difference was found in the image quality. Effective dose (ED) was(0.17±0.05),(0.13±0.04)mSv respectively, there was significant reduction in group B than that in group A (t=2.48, P=0.019). The consumed iodine amount was(10.00±1.84),(8.29± 1.45) ml respectively, there was significant reduction between the two groups (t=2.89, P=0.007). Conclusions In children with TOF, the cardiovascular CTA with diagnostic quality can be adequately acquired with low tube voltage (70 kVp) and low concentration contrast media (1.0 ml/kg), there is significant reduction in radiation dose and contrast medium amount.
10.Application of low-dose prospective electrocardiography-triggering dual-source CT angiography in infants and children with congenital heart disease
Yanhua DUAN ; Lebin WU ; Zhaoping CHENG ; Dawei WU ; Pei NIE ; Xiaopeng JI ; Ximing WANG
Chinese Journal of Radiology 2012;46(4):312-316
Objective To explore the application of low-dose prospective ECG-triggering dualsource CT (DSCT) angiography in infants and children with Kawasaki disease (KD).MethodsNineteen children diagnosed of Kawasaki disease underwent low-dose prospective ECG- triggering DSCT angiography (DSCTA) with free breathing and transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE).The overall imaging quality was graded on a five-point scale. Interobserver agreement in subjective image quality grading was assessed by Kappa statistics.The location,number and size of the aneurysms and dilations were recorded and compared with those of TTE.Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the agreement on measurements between DSCTA and TTE.The average effective dose of DSCTA in all 19 children was calculated.ResultsDSCTA was performed successfully in all 19 children.A total of 91.5 % (226/247) segments permitted visualization with diagnostic image quality. Fifteen patients were diagnosed with coronary artery lesions. A total of 28 aneurysms and 15 arterial aneurysmal dilations were detected by DSCTA,while 19 aneurysms and 13 arterial aneurysmal dilations were found by TTE.TTE failed to detect 9 aneurysms (2 in the distal right coronary artery,2 in the posterior descending artery,1 in the middle of left anterior descending artery,1 in the middle of left circumflex artery,2 in the distal of LCX and 1 in the obtuse marginal branch)and 2 arterial aneurysmal dilations (1 at the diagonal branch and 1 at obtuse marginal branch). The concordance of DSCTA and TTE in measurement of diameter and length of these aneurysms and aneurysmal dilatations are good (0.63 ± 0.20) and (0.58 ± 0.20) cm vs ( 1.49 ± 0.83 ) and ( 1.22 ± 0.66) cm ( r =0.989 and 0.965,P < 0.05 ).There was a good agreement on overall image quality ( Kappa =0.87 ). The mean effective dose was(0.24 ± 0.08) mSv.ConclusionProspective ECG-triggering DSCTA with very low effective radiation dose is safe,reliable and more sensitive than TTE on diagnosing of coronary artery lesions,especially in the distal lesions,in infants and children with KD.

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