经皮椎体后凸成形术对骨质疏松性椎体压缩骨折的相关并发症的预后评价

目的：评价经皮椎体后凸成形术（Percutaneous kyphoplasty,PKP）对骨质疏松性椎体压缩骨折（Osteoporotic vertebral body compression的ctures,OVCFs）的相关并发症的预后。方法：回顾性分析我院2009年5月-2011年4月收治的行PKP治疗的172例OVCFs患者,按照其并发症情况分为发生组（n=22）及未发生组（n=150）,分析并发症发生的原因及对预后的影响。结果：术后共有22例患者出现并发症,发生率12_8％。其中骨水泥渗漏15例（68．2％）,骨水泥椎弓根拖尾7例（31．8％）,未见切口感染、肺栓塞等其他并发症。两组患者麻醉情况、手术时间、术中出血量和骨水泥注入量无明显统计学差异;两组患者治疗后VAS评分、后凸Cobb角显著降低,椎体前缘高度及椎体中部高度显著增加（P〈0．05）,但组间对比均无明显统计学差异,其改善率亦未见明显统计学差异（P〉0．05）。结论：PKP治疗OVCFs可取得良好的疗效,但也会带来骨水泥渗漏、骨水泥椎弓根拖尾等并发症,虽对患者的疼痛及躯体功能等预后无明显不良影响,但部分患者可出现神经受损、肺栓塞等继发疾病,严重影响其生存质量,因此,在今后的治疗中,应严格规范各项诊疗操作,有效控制PKP并发症的发生,从而改善其生存质量。     

Serum netrin and VCAM-1 as biomarker for Egyptian patients with type IΙ diabetes mellitus

ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the serum level of netrin and soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-I) in patients with type IΙ diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and evaluate the association of their levels with the development of a diabetic complication.Patients and methodsThis study was carried out on type II diabetic patients with and without complications and healthy individuals served as controls. All subjects were submitted to the estimation of serum lipid profile, serum creatinine, urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR), fasting blood glucose (FBG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), visceral adiposity index (VAI), atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), lipid accumulation product (LAP) and detection of serum level of netrin1 and VCAM1.ResultsDiabetic patients with complications had significantly higher serum levels of creatinine, ACR, cholesterol, Triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein, netrin1, and VCAM1 than diabetic patients without complications. Likewise, the level of VAI and LAP as markers of excessive body fat were significantly higher in diabetic patients with complications than diabetic patients without complications. The netrin1 and VCAM1 were a significant discriminator of T2DM renal complications with a sensitivity of 96%, 90%, and specificity of 82.7%, 91.3% respectively.ConclusionIt can be concluded that serum netrin1 and VCAM1 correlated significantly with markers of excessive body fat, a renal complication in the patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus.     

Management of disease resistance diversity of cultivars of a species in single fields: controlling epidemics

The use of a diversity of resistance genes limits the development of polycyclic epidemics caused by airborne pathogens and reduces the risk that resistance be overcome by virulent races. Diversity can be easily achieved by growing mixtures of cultivars with different resistance genes and homogeneous agronomic traits. The mechanisms by which disease is reduced in cultivar mixtures include the loss of inoculum due to the presence of resistant plants between susceptible ones and resistance induced by avirulent pathogens. The complementary effects of individual mixture components reacting to disease pressure and to abiotic stresses result in greater yield stability compared with pure stands. The quality of products from mixtures is at least equal to that obtained with pure stands. This type of resistance management is applicable to both annual and perennial crops.     

腰椎Cage手术并发症分析及其防治

目的:分析后路腰椎椎间cage融合术常见的并发症并探讨对策。方法:对89例腰椎间盘突出症、下腰椎失稳症患者,经临床症状、体征和影像资料明确诊断且具有手术指征,并采用后路cage融合术治疗,对其中出现的并发症进行原因分析。结果:89例中出现并发症的有24例,包括神经症状加重、脑脊液漏、感染等近期并发症和症状缓解不明显、植骨不融合等远期并发症。术后神经症状加重5例,主要与手术适应症选择正确与否、影像学资料阅读能力高低、术者操作技能熟练程度等因素有关。结论:cage融合术是外科治疗椎间盘突出症的一种优良方法,术后神经症状加重和神经根损伤是最常见的并发症,正确把握手术适应症、熟练掌握操作技巧、提高并发症的诊断和处理能力是顺利开展该技术、提高临床疗效的关键。     

微血管减压术治疗面肌痉挛术后相关并发症的临床分析

目的:总结面肌痉挛患者的术后并发症的发生情况并分析其原因。方法:回顾性分析了1548名在我院行微血管减压术治疗面肌痉挛的患者的临床资料,所有患者接受电话随访或者门诊随访,随访时间均超过2年,总结其临床疗效及术后并发症的发生情况。结果:微血管减压术后痊愈率及明显缓解率分别为92.5%及4.2%。249名(16.09%)患者出现不同的并发症,其中最常见的并发症为面瘫及术后手术区域皮肤感觉障碍,无死亡及重大并发症患者。听力损害发生率为3.5%。其他并发症包括脑脊液漏、后组颅神经损伤、外展神经损伤、颅内出血等。结论:微血管减压术是治疗面肌痉挛的安全有效操作,以手术区域感觉障碍及迟发性面瘫是主要的并发症,持久性的或者严重的并发症比较少见。     

Nrf2及其药理性活化剂在糖尿病心血管并发症中的作用

糖尿病(DM)导致的心脑血管并发症是危害人类健康的重大疾病。氧化应激被认为是DM相关心血管并发症发生、发展的重要机制,但通过补充外源性抗氧化剂并未能使心血管疾病患者远期获益。核因子E2相关因子2(Nrf2)可增加内源性抗氧化酶的活性从而提高机体的抗氧化应激能力,可能是治疗糖尿病心血管并发症的一个重要靶点,提示靶向Nrf2药物的开发可能获得防治糖尿病相关血管并发症的新一代药物。本文就Nrf2在糖尿病相关心血管并发症发生、发展中的作用及其药理性活化剂对糖尿病(DM)相关心血管病变的治疗作用进行综述。     

Genetic susceptibility to ageing-associated diseases

The constant and rapid increase of life expectancy in western countries is associated with a major ageing of our populations. In these conditions, we can expect an epidemic progression of most chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular, neurodegenerative and metabolic disorders, the main causes of death in the world. The global burden of these diseases will have a dramatic impact on the health and on the socio-economical context of our societies. From a global point of view, the occurrence and progression of these multifactorial diseases rely upon the nature and intensity of the environmental determinants we are exposed to all life long, but also to our individual genetic susceptibility. Through the determination of this higher susceptibility to an environmental risk factor and the understanding of its mechanisms of action, prevention and management efforts will be better focused. In such multifactorial affections, the development and the transmission of the disease do not follow the simple laws of monogenic Mendelian models. The complexity of this transmission is associated with the influence, at various degrees, of several genes and of a close interaction between this particular genetic susceptibility and environmental risk factors. With the recent development of automated and high throughput molecular biology techniques and their use in epidemiological studies, gene expression regulation and post genomic studies, the determination of sub-groups facing a higher individual genetic susceptibility has begun. This determination will offer new clues for a better-targeted disease management.     

Molecular biology and genetics of Alzheimer's disease

Like several other adult onset neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial illness with both genetic and non-genetic causes. Recent genetic studies have identified four genes associated with inherited risk for AD (presenilin 1, presenilin 2, amyloid precursor protein, and apolipoprotein E). These genes account for about half of the total genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. It is suspected that several other Alzheimer's disease-susceptibility genes exist, and their identification is the subject of ongoing research. Nevertheless, biological studies on the effects of mutations in the four known genes has led to the conclusion that all of these genes cause dysregulation of amyloid precursor protein processing and in particular dysregulation of the handling of a proteolytic derivative termed Abeta. The accumulation of Abeta appears to be an early and initiating event that triggers a series of downstream processes including misprocessing of the tau protein. This cascade ultimately causes neuronal dysfunction and death, and leads to the clinical and pathological features of Alzheimer's disease. Knowledge of this biochemical cascade now provides several potential targets for the development of diagnostics and therapeutics.     

Complicaciones y pronóstico de pacientes ancianos diagnosticados de meningioma intracraneal

ObjectSurgical treatment in patients older than 70 years old with intracranial meningioma is still subject to controversy. The benefit/risk ratio of this surgery has not been assessed due to the lack of objective criteria. The aim of this study is to assess the surgical complications and outcomes in elderly patients in our centre.MethodA retrospective analysis was performed on patients with intracranial meningioma between January 2010 and March 2014. The incidence of post-surgical complications, as well as their associated risk factors, was also analysed. Functional outcomes were compared with Glasgow Outcome Scale and Karnofsky index with those who underwent surgery and those with conservative management. Finally, a comparison was made between patients younger than 70 years old operated on for intracranial meningioma.ResultsA total of 48 patients diagnosed with intracranial meningioma older than 70 years old, of which 37 were operated on and 11 were followed up with conservative management. There were no differences between the groups in neurological status at discharge (Glasgow Outcome Scale 5 67.6 vs. 72.2%, respectively). No differences were observed in functional outcome during 6 months of follow up in the Karnofsky index between surgical and non-surgical patients (P = .486). In the comparison between older and younger than 70 years old, there were no differences in the incidence of surgical complications (P = .64 in early complications and P = .23 in late complications).ConclusionThe results of the present study suggest that age should not be a limitation in surgical indications in patients older than 70 years old with intracranial meningioma. No statistical differences were found in functional status compared with conservative management or in surgical complications between younger and elderly patients.     

气管切开术

气管切开术是一项临床常见的手术操作,偶尔也会在院外实施。手术目的为在颈前气管造口以建立人工气道,使得患者可以自由地通过颈部造口通气,免受窒息的威胁。目前,临床上主要应用于需要进行长期机械通气的患者,特别是重症医学科。随技术和设备的更新换代,临床医生和学者对气管切开术进行了各种尝试,希望能尽可能地降低术中术后并发症。手术向着微创化、多样化发展,手术切口越来越小,手术方法由单一的外科气管切开术,进化出多样的经皮气管切开术、快速反应气管切开术等。不同的手术技巧,其手术的适应症、禁忌症及术中术后出现出血、感染、气肿、声门下狭窄等并发症的发生率也不甚相同。本文重点回顾了气管切开术的历史与现状、颈部解剖生理、适应症、禁忌症和临床常见并发症,并提出对应的预防和解决方法,为临床医生进行手术方案的选择及预防和治疗并发症提供合理新思路,除此之外,我们也基于临床经验提供了一些建议。     

永久心脏起搏器植入常见并发症临床分析

目的:分析永久心脏起搏器植入术出现并发症的原因、相关因素及预防措施。方法:回顾分析2009年1月~2011年12月321例永久心脏起搏器植入患者的临床资料。其中男172例,女149例,平均年龄56.7±18.4岁。其中病态窦房结综合征136例,三度房室阻滞97例;二度II型房室阻滞76例,起搏器更换35例。结果:321例植入永久心脏起搏器患者中发生并发症17例,发生率为5.29%。其中与囊袋相关并发症4例,电极导线相关并发症4例、起搏器相关并发症2例,术中操作所致并发症3例。结论:深化对起搏器常见临床并发症的了解,进一步完善术前准备,重视术中规范操作并加强术后管理,可降低其并发症的发生率。     

乙状结肠癌经腹膜内造瘘与经腹膜外造瘘的临床疗效及并发症的预防

目的:探讨乙状结肠经腹膜内造瘘与经腹膜外造瘘的对比分析及造口并发症的预防。方法:选取我院收治的行肛管直肠下段恶性肿瘤切除术的患者127例,根据造瘘方式不同将患者分为两组,实验组72例予以经腹膜外造瘘,对照组55例予经腹膜内造口术,观察并比较两组患者的术中情况,术后并发症,以及术后排便功能,来评价两种造瘘方法的效果。结果:与对照组比较,实验组术中、术后并发症均降低,术后排便功能改善显著,差异均有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:经腹膜外乙状结肠造口较经腹膜内乙状结肠造口的术中情况明显改善,且并发症减少,能够较好的控便和排便,值得临床推广使用。     

ERCP术治疗胆总管结石的有效性及安全性分析

目的:分析经内镜逆行胰胆管造影术(ERCP)术治疗胆总管结石的有效性及安全性。方法:选择2017年1月～2018年8月在我院接受择期ERCP治疗的164例胆总管结石患者为研究对象,分析患者的手术情况、取石效果、手术前后胃肠疾病生活质量指数(GIQLI)量表评分和并发症的发生情况。结果:胆总管结石患者手术时间为(37.90±4.21)min、术中出血量(10.86±1.29)mL、术后通气时间(4.38±0.65)d、切口疼痛时间(1.02±0.12)d、住院时间(8.62±0.96)d、手术成功率为97.56%(160/164)、一次取净结石率为95.73%(157/164)、二次取净结石率为1.82%(3/164)。术后,胆总管结石患者GIQLI评分均显著高于术前(P0.05)。胆总管结石患者术后发生胰腺炎5例、胆管炎1例、出血6例、高淀粉酶血症4例。结论:ERCP术是胆总管结石患者的有效治疗手段,但需积极预防并处理相关并发症。     

腹腔镜术中二氧化碳异常弥散所致并发症

气腹是腹腔镜手术顺利进行的重要条件,二氧化碳(CO2)是气腹时最常用的气体。然而,腹腔镜手术除可引起开放式手术类似的并发症外,尚可引起腹腔镜技术相关的并发症。临床医生应当充分重视并及时处理各种并发症。这些并发症中以CO2异常弥散引起的并发症较为常见,且症状较严重。该类并发症主要包括CO2气体栓塞、气肿和气胸等,本文将就此进行综述。     

Conventional single-chamber pacemakers versus transcatheter pacing systems in a “real world” cohort of patients: A comparative prospective single-center study

PurposeDespite the developments in conventional transvenous pacemakers (VVI-PM), the procedure is still associated with significant complications. Although there are no prospective clinical trials that compared VVI-PM with transcatheter pacemaker systems (TPS).MethodsThis is a prospective, observational, single-center study that included all patients with an indication for a single-chamber pacemaker implant within a 4-year period. All clinical, ECG and echocardiographic characteristics at implant, electrical parameters, associated complications and mortality were analyzed. A Cox survival model and a Bayesian cohort analysis were performed for differences in complication rates between groups.ResultsThere were 443 patients included (198 TPS and 245 VVI-PM). The mean age was 81.5 years (TPS group, 79.2 ± 6.6 years; VVI-PM group, 83.5 ± 8.9 years). There was a male predominance in TPS group (123, 62.1% vs. 67, 27.3%; p < 0.001). The presence of systolic dysfunction and renal insufficiency were more frequent in VVI-PM group than in TPS patients. Mean follow-up was 22.3 ± 15.9 months. In a multivariable paired data the TPS group presented fewer complications than VVI-PM group (HR = 0.39 [0.15–0.98], p-value 0.013), but major complications were not different (6, 3% vs 14, 5.6% respectively, p = 0.1761). There was no difference in the mortality rate between the groups. The TPS group had less risk than VVI-PM group to have a complication, with a 96% of probability.ConclusionsTPS patients had a lower overall complication rate than VVI-PM patients including matched-pair samples using a Bayesian analysis. These results confirm the safety profile of TPS in clinical practice.     

Remodeling is at the heart of chromatin

Chromatin modifications are integral elements of chromosome structure and its function and the vasculature depends on tissue-specific genome regulation for its development. A general concept for the de-regulation of chromatin modifications in cardiac and vascular disease is also emerging. The recognition that metabolic memory contributes to disease persistence highlights the benefit of early and aggressive treatment. As for the importance of memory, we do know that good metabolic control delays the onset of long-term diabetic complications. There are striking parallels between the timing of disease and the development of complications. Landmark multicenter clinical trials on diabetes patients have popularized the concept that glucose is also a demonstrable determinant for the development of complications, indicating the prolonged benefit of intensive therapy and the lasting damage of conventional therapy. Each cell type experiences thousands of modifications to the epigenome in response to environmental changes it is exposed to. Therefore, history is neither lost nor forgotten and previous experiences and exposure may form future memories. There is now a strong resurgence in research trying to understand gene-environment interactions and to determine what commits specific vascular cell types to specific memories. Recent insights show that cardiac gene expression is distinguished by specific chromatin remodeling events and histone modifications that are associated with heart disease.     

充填式无张力疝修补术及并发症防治

目的：探讨无张力疝修补术的应用价值及及并发症防治的意义。方法：回顾性分析填充式无张力疝修补术治疗腹股沟疝52例的临床资料。结果：全组手术时间（46±22）min,切口均一期愈合,术后3～7d出院,并发症发生率仅1．9％,随访无复发。结论：无张力疝修补术创伤小、疼痛轻、恢复快,是治疗腹股沟疝的最佳术式,熟练的技术和规范化操作是预防并发症发生的关键。     

经肱动脉途径冠状动脉介入治疗并发症的预防及处理

目的:评价130例次经肱动脉途径冠状动脉介入治疗(PCI术)局部并发症情况.方法:连续入选2009年3月至2011年12月我院经肱动脉途径冠状动脉PCI术的病例130例次.分析经肱动脉介入治疗操作并发症情况.结果:共24例患者发生了局部并发症,并发症发生率为18.5％.其中穿刺局部发生血肿22例(16.9％),其中1例合并骨筋膜室综合征及正中神经损伤(0.8％),局部神经损伤1例(0.8％),假性动脉瘤1例(0.8％).经处理后血肿全部吸收,最后仍有1例正中神经损伤和1例假性动脉瘤未能完全康复.结论:经肱动脉途径冠状动脉PCI术并发症发生率较高,熟悉肱动脉穿刺方法、掌握标准的压迫止血包扎方案、术后肢体夹板制动、并对其并发症有足够的认识和处理对策的充分准备可以减少并发症及其不良后果的发生.     

肝部分切除治疗肝内胆管结石患者术后并发症及影响因素分析

目的:分析肝部分切除术治疗肝内胆管结石患者术后并发症及影响因素。方法:选取我院收治的肝内胆管结石患者117例,均采取肝部分切除术治疗,对其临床资料进行回顾性分析,研究术后并发症的发生情况,并对影响因素进行分析。结果:本组117例患者,并发症发生率35.04%,其中肝功能衰竭1例,胆道出血2例,消化道出血6例,腹腔感染6例,胆瘘6例,胸腔积液8例,切口感染12例。并发症组患者术前白蛋白、手术时间、既往胆道手术史水平与非并发症组比较,差异均有统计学意义(P0.05)。肝部分切除术后的并发症多因素Logistic回归分析结果显示,手术时间、既往胆道手术史均是术后并发症独立风险因素。结论:肝部分切除术治疗肝内胆管结石患者术后并发症发生率较高,以切口感染和胸腔积液为最,患者的既往手术史以及手术时间均是影响并发症发生的重要危险因素,做好针对性预防可预防并发症的发生。     

Preexisting heart failure is an underestimated risk factor in cardiac surgery

Background

Heart failure is characterised as a strong risk factor for systemic failure after cardiac surgery. However, the impact has never been substantiated.

Methods

Patients with heart failure (n = 48) - scheduled for elective ventricular reconstruction or external constraint device-were compared with a one-to-one matched control group of patients without heart failure undergoing cardiac surgery between 2006 and 2009.

Results

As expected, patients with heart failure more frequently experienced complications definitely related to pump failure (p = 0.01). However, complications not related to their pump failure were also more often observed, such as prolonged mechanical ventilation, sepsis and vasoplegia (p = 0.01). Overall, organ dysfunction-circulatory, renal, and pulmonary failure-was often observed in heart failure patients, contributing to a prolonged stay in the intensive care unit (p < 0.001) as well as in hospital (p = 0.01).

Conclusion

The adverse postoperative course in patients with heart failure is not only directly related to circulatory failure, but merely reflects a systemic dysregulation. Our findings suggest that heart failure impacts outcome and should therefore be included in prevailing risk classification systems. Offensive perioperative treatment strategies, focused on the main complications in patients with heart failure, will lead to improved results after cardiac surgery.

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