Comparative study on different therapies on patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma

Objective

To compare and analyze three therapies on patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL), aiming to provide evidences for future treatment and prognosis.

术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH与原发性肝癌患者手术切除术后早期复发的关系研究

摘要 目的：研究术前三叶因子1（TFF1）、热休克蛋白70（HSP70）、天冬氨酸-天冬酰胺β羟化酶（ASPH）与原发性肝癌（PHC）患者手术切除术后早期复发的关系。方法：选取2018年1月～2019年12月我院收治的83例PHC患者,均行手术切除治疗,术后均随访2年,根据是否复发分为复发组49例以及未复发组34例。比较两组术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH水平差异,收集患者基线资料,采用多因素Logistic回归分析PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发的危险因素,采用受试者工作特征（ROC）曲线分析术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH水平预测PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发的效能。结果：复发组术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH水平均高于未复发组（P＜0.05）。复发组肿瘤直径≥5 cm、肿瘤数目为多发、有血管侵犯的患者比例高于未复发组（P＜0.05）。多因素Logistic回归分析结果显示：肿瘤直径≥5 cm、多发肿瘤、血管侵犯及术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH高水平是PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发的危险因素（均OR＞1,P＜0.05）。ROC曲线分析结果显示：术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH联合检测预测PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发的曲线下面积为0.815,明显高于上述三项指标单独检测的0.704、0.713、0.707。结论：术前TFF1、HSP70、ASPH与PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发密切相关,联合检测三项指标水平可能有助于预测PHC患者手术切除术后早期复发。     

Excessive increase of serum interleukin 6 jeopardizes host defense against multi-bacterial infection

Serum interleukin 6 (IL-6) is elevated among patients who have undergone surgery, trauma, and thermal injury. It is well known that the greater the increase of serum IL-6, the higher the incidence of post-injury morbidity and mortality is. However, it has not been determined whether the physiological effects of IL-6 increase the rate of morbidity and mortality or if IL-6 is just a bystander that only indicates the severity of the injury. To elucidate this, we planned to investigate the effect of IL-6 on a multi-bacterial infection, one of the most frequent post-injury complications. CDF1 male mice were administered recombinant human IL-6 (hIL-6) continuously at a dose of 0, 1, or 10 microg/day. The mice then underwent cecal ligation without puncture that induced slow multi-bacterial infection. The survival rate of mice receiving 10 microg/day of hIL-6 was significantly lower (38.5%) than the rate of those receiving 0 (83.3%) or 1 (92.3%) microg/day of hIL-6. The result of this study showed that only excessive increases in serum IL-6, to levels that were observed among patients who underwent severe injury or extensive surgery with high incidence of post-injury infection, jeopardize the host's defense against bacterial infection.     

Monitoring surgical performance using risk-adjusted cumulative sum charts

The cumulative sum (CUSUM) procedure is a graphical method that is widely used for quality monitoring in industrial settings. More recently it has been used to monitor surgical outcomes whereby it 'signals' if sufficient evidence has accumulated that there has been a change in the surgical failure rate. A limitation of the standard CUSUM procedure in this context is that since it is simply based on the observed surgical outcomes, it may signal as a result of changes in the referral pattern, such as an increased proportion of high-risk patients, rather than due to a change in the actual surgical performance. We describe a new CUSUM procedure that adjusts for each patient's pre-operative risk of surgical failure through the use of a likelihood-based scoring method. The procedure is therefore ideally suited for settings where there is a variable mix of patients over time.     

脊髓型颈椎病的发病机制及治疗的研究进展

在中老年人群中脊髓型颈椎病是造成脊髓功能障碍的主要原因,其发病机制复杂,主要有静态和动态因素、缺血、内皮细胞损伤和血脊髓屏障的破坏、炎症及细胞凋亡等学说,每一种学说并不能够完美的解释脊髓型颈椎病的发病机制,仍需进一步实验研究探索其机制。对于进行性发展的脊髓型颈椎病多采用手术治疗,手术方式主要有前路、后路及前后路联合手术,如何选择手术方案仍是临床医生关注的焦点,本文就该病的发病机制及手术治疗的相关进展作一综述。     

混合痔手术治疗技术新进展

：痔(Haemorrhoids)是直肠末端黏膜、肛管皮肤下痔静脉丛屈曲或扩张而形成的柔软静脉团,是外科常见的疾病。尽管保守治 疗适用于大部分患者人群,但是手术治疗却适用于大部分严重病人,比如外剥内扎术就被视为治疗IV 度痔的金标准。痔的手术 治疗有传统手术和微创手术,为了减轻患者的痛苦、加速恢复、减少并发症的发生,PPH 和TST 等新型手术方式也逐渐被应用于 III痔的治疗中,这些手术方法的目的是纠正痔疮的病因及病理生理基础,具有微创、痛苦小的特点,但往往复发率较高。随着手术 方式的改进以及操作技术的成熟,痔的外科治疗效果也取得了长足的进步。本文对混合痔的外科手术技术作一综述,为临床治疗 提供理论依据。     

Gender-related differences in octogenarians with congenital coronary artery fistula: a report of two cases and a review

Aim

To highlight gender-related differences in octogenarians with a congenital coronary artery fistula (CAF).

Materials and methods

We present two elderly female patients with a congenital fistula, a septuagenarian and a nonagenarian, and review the world literature between 1954–2010.

Results

The septuagenarian patient presented with easy fatigability and the nonagenarian patient with acute myocardial infarction contralaterally to the fistula. Coronary angiography (CAG) demonstrated a coronary-pulmonary artery fistula (CPF). The nonagenarian patient underwent percutaneous coronary intervention of the right coronary artery. CAG revealed a CPF associated with a huge multiple aneurysmal formation. Data from 57 mainly symptomatic patients with a mean age of 75.3 years (range 70–87 years) were collected. The cohort was subdivided into female (mean age 84.3 years) and male (mean age 75.2 years) subgroups and compared with each other. Multi-origin (bilateral and multilateral) was prevalent in females, 40% versus 12% in males. Aneurysmal formation was found in females and males in 40% and 18%, respectively. Ethnicity was 65% Caucasian and 35% Asian. Multi-origin fistulas were prevalent in the Asian (45%) compared with the Caucasian (11%) subset.

Conclusions

A septuagenarian and a nonagenarian female patient with congenital CAF are presented. On reviewing the literature, important differences were found between elderly females and males with congenital CAF.     

外科治疗囊性听神经瘤14 例临床观察

目的:探讨囊性听神经瘤的临床特点及手术经验。方法:回顾分析2006年1月-2010年12月我院收治的14例囊性听经瘤的临床资料。结果:肿瘤全切除12例,不全切除2例,无死亡病例,术后4例病人面瘫加重,1例病人听力丧失。结论:与实质性听神经瘤相比,囊性听神经瘤体积较大,病程短,始发症状不典型,颅神经常被累及,可不发生内听道扩大,脑积水发生率低,手术效果差。     

Surgical issues surrounding use of aromatase inhibitors

There are important surgical issues related to the use of the third generation aromatase inhibitors in both the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. Neoadjuvant hormone therapy is effective at downstaging tumours, particularly large tumours initially thought to be inoperable or requiring mastectomy. Randomised trials have shown that the newer aromatase inhibitors letrozole and anastrozole increase the numbers of women who are suitable for breast-conservation compared with tamoxifen, and that letrozole is superior to tamoxifen in terms of clinical response.

Aromatase inhibitors are most effective in ER-rich tumours and are clinically and biologically effective in both HER2 positive and negative tumours, whereas HER2 positive tumours show a level of resistance to tamoxifen.

In neoadjuvant studies comparing aromatase inhibitors with tamoxifen, the duration of use has been 3–4 months, by which time any response is usually evident but longer treatment periods produce continued shrinkage and response. The re-excision rate following breast conservation surgery after neoadjuvant hormone therapy is favourable compared with the rates following immediate wide local excision. Local recurrence rates are acceptable in patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy and breast-conserving surgery providing post-operative radiotherapy is given.

Adjuvant aromatase inhibitors, as well as having an effect on metastatic disease and survival, reduce local and regional recurrence.     

胸部双源性疾病外科治疗的临床决策

胸部双源性疾病随人口的老龄化而逐年增加,而老年人的心肺及各种脏器功能随年龄的增长逐渐衰退,并发症多,手术风险大,对此类病人的外科治疗如何做出正确的临床医疗决策呢？我们以循证医学理论为基础,努力做到临床医疗决策的科学性,治疗方案的合理性,大胆尝试,逐步从分期手术向一期手术过渡,既达到了解决病人疾苦,救治病人的目的,又解决了医疗需求的增加和卫生资源短缺的矛盾,取得了满意的效果,降低了医疗成本,节约了医疗资源,产生了明显的社会和经济效益。